The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 135
Look how it runs through one’s fingers!’ and, so saying, he filled his pocket with the mud.
Who acts: you, course, BLOCKHEAD · What happens: look, run, say, fill · To what, where: one fingers, pocket · 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 (you, 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 runs | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 fingers | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 fingers | nummod |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 one | case |
| 8 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 runs | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 filled | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 filled | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 filled | advmod |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 filled | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 filled | nsubj |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obj | ||
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 mud | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mud | det |
| 22 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | run | present | course | one fingers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through finger=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | BLOCKHEAD not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fill | past | BLOCKHEAD | BLOCKHEAD's pocket | with the mud | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with mud=Instrument |
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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