The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 113
Here I come!’ shouted Blockhead-Hans, singing so that the echoes were roused far and near.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, shout, sing, rouse · To what, where: Blockhead, echoes
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 shouted | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 6 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Blockhead | Blockhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shouted | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hans | punct |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Blockhead | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singing | punct |
| 11 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shouted | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 17 roused | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 roused | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 echoes | det |
| 15 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 roused | aux:pass |
| 17 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 singing | ccomp |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 roused | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 near | cc |
| 20 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 far | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | Blockhead Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockhead=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | rouse | past · passive | the echoes | far property | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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