The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 121
‘Do so, certainly!’ they said, laughing loudly and riding on.
Who acts: echoes · What happens: do, say, laugh, ride on · 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 (echoes), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 certainly | punct |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 2 Do | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughing | punct |
| 11 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | advcl |
| 12 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 11 laughing | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 riding | cc |
| 14 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 laughing | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 riding | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | certainly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | echoes = echo | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | echoes = echo not said here | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ride on | gerund | echoes = echo not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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