The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 118

‘Blockhead!’ said his brothers, ‘what are you going to do with it?’

Who acts: Blockhead · What happens: say, go, do · To what, where: brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Blockhead	punct
2	Blockhead	blockhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Blockhead	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Blockhead	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 going	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Blockhead	BLOCKHEAD's brothers		tree rules
2	go	present · progressive				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	to-infinitive			with road	vn act-114-1 «NP 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.

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