The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 101

‘Dear father!’ cried Blockhead-Hans, ‘I must have a horse too.

Who acts: Dear father, I · What happens: cry, have · To what, where: Blockhead, horse

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 (Dear father, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Hans	punct
9	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Blockhead	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cried	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	too	too	ADV	_	14 have	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Dear father	Blockhead Hans					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockhead=Topic
2	have	must	I	a horse					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

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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