The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 134
‘Of course it is!’ said Blockhead-Hans, ‘and it is the best kind!
Who acts: course, Blockhead · What happens: be, say · To what, where: best kind · 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 (course, Blockhead), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 5 is | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Blockhead | Blockhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hans | punct |
| 11 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Blockhead | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kind | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 kind | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kind | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kind | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kind | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kind | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 kind | amod |
| 19 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Blockhead | appos |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | course | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Blockhead Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | course | the best kind | 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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