The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 100

I’ll go to!’ cried Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed at him and rode off.

Who acts: I, Blockhead, brothers · What happens: go, cry, laugh, ride off

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Blockhead, brothers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 go	obl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
8	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 Hans	punct
10	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Blockhead	nmod:unmarked
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brothers	det
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rode	cc
19	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 rode	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	future	I		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Blockhead Hans		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	laugh	past	the brothers	at BLOCKHEAD	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ride off	past	the brothers not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/100/