The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 133
‘Why!’ said the brothers, ‘this is pure mud, straight from the ditch.’
Who acts: this · What happens: say, be · To what, where: brothers, pure mud · 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 (this), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brothers | det |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mud | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 mud | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 mud | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mud | cop |
| 12 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mud | amod |
| 13 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ditch | punct |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 18 ditch | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 ditch | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ditch | det |
| 18 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mud | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the brothers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | pure mud and the ditch | 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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