The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 11

The little lady was stretching out both her arms, for she was a Dancer, and was lifting up one leg so high in the air that the Tin-soldier couldn’t find it anywhere, and thought that she, too, had only one leg.

Who acts: little lady, lady, Tin soldier · What happens: stretch out, be, lift up, not find, think, have · To what, where: one leg, leg

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 (little lady, lady, Tin 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lady	amod
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretching	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stretching	aux
5	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stretching	compound:prt
7	both	both	ADP	_	9 arms	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arms	nmod:poss
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stretching	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Dancer	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 Dancer	case
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Dancer	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Dancer	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Dancer	det
15	Dancer	dancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretching	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lifting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lifting	cc
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lifting	aux
19	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stretching	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 lifting	compound:prt
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 leg	nummod
22	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lifting	obj
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 high	advmod
24	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lifting	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 air	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 air	det
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 high	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 soldier	det
30	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 soldier	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Tin	punct
32	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
34	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 find	advmod
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 high	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	obj
37	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 find	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thought	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thought	cc
40	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stretching	conj
41	that	that	ADP	_	42 she	case
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thought	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 too	punct
44	too	too	ADV	_	5 stretching	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 had	punct
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stretching	conj
47	only	only	ADV	_	48 one	advmod
48	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 leg	nummod
49	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 had	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stretching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past · progressive	the little lady		both lady's arms	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	lady		for a Dancer	tree rules
3	lift up	past · progressive	the little lady not said here	one leg		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
4	not find	could	the Tin soldier	leg	anywhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	think speech: other	past	the little lady not said here		that lady	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	past	the little lady not said here	one leg		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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