The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 12

‘That’s the wife for me!’ he thought; ‘but she is so grand, and lives in a castle, whilst I have only a box with four-and-twenty others.

Who acts: That, wife, I · What happens: be, think, live, have · To what, where: wife, castle, box

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 (That, wife, 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	_	5 wife	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wife	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wife	nmod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 wife	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 grand	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 grand	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 grand	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grand	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 grand	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 grand	advmod
18	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lives	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lives	cc
21	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 grand	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 castle	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lives	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	28 have	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lives	conj
29	only	only	ADV	_	31 box	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 box	det
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 four	case
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 box	nmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 four	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 others	cc
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 and	punct
37	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 others	nummod
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 four	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	the wife		for me	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the wife				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	wife			grand property	tree rules
4	live	present			a castle		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location
5	have	present	I	a box		with four and twenty others	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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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