The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 117
Just look what I found on the road!’--and he showed them a dead crow which he had picked up.
Who acts: you, I, BLOCKHEAD · What happens: look, find, show, pick up · To what, where: road, brothers, dead crow
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 (you, I, BLOCKHEAD), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 look | advmod |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 found | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 showed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 showed | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 showed | nsubj |
| 14 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 showed | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crow | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crow | amod |
| 18 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showed | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 picked | aux |
| 22 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 crow | acl:relcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 picked | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | past | I | the road | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 3 | show | past | BLOCKHEAD | brothers = brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient crow=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | a dead crow | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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