The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 128
‘Of course I shall!’ returned Blockhead-Hans; and the brothers laughed and rode on a good way.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: return, laugh, ride · To what, where: Blockhead, good way
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 (brothers), 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 | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 shall | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 shall | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 shall | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shall | punct |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Blockhead | Blockhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hans | punct |
| 11 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Blockhead | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 laughed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 laughed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 brothers | det |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laughed | nsubj |
| 16 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 laughed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Blockhead Hans | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blockhead=Theme | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the brothers | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | the brothers not said here | a good way | 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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