The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 126

‘Blockhead!’ said they, ‘that is an old wooden shoe without the top!

Who acts: Blockhead, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: old wooden shoe · 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, that), 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shoe	punct
8	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	14 shoe	mark
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 shoe	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shoe	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 shoe	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shoe	amod
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shoe	amod
14	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	without	without	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoe	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Blockhead						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that	a old wooden shoe				without the top	tree rules

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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