The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 92
Now, the Soldier went down again to his beautiful rooms, and appeared once more in splendid clothes.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: go down, appear · To what, where: splendid clothes
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Soldier | det |
| 4 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rooms | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rooms | amod |
| 11 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | cc |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 appeared | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 clothes | case |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clothes | amod |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 appeared | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the Soldier | now; again | to soldier's beautiful rooms; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | appear | past | the Soldier not said here | splendid clothes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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