The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 142

At last she came to the row in which the brother who knew the dictionary by heart was, but he did not know it any longer; he had quite forgotten it in the rank and file.

Who acts: Princess, brother, King · What happens: come, know, not know, forget · To what, where: last, dictionary, rank

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 (Princess, brother, King), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 row	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 row	det
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 was	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brother	det
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 brother	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dictionary	det
15	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 heart	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	obl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 row	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 know	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 know	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 know	advmod
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 know	obj
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 longer	advmod
27	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 know	advmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 forgotten	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 forgotten	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 forgotten	aux
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 forgotten	advmod
32	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 came	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 forgotten	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 rank	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rank	det
36	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 forgotten	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 file	cc
38	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rank	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Princess		last	to the row	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to row=Initial_Location
2	know	past	the brother	the dictionary		by heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dictionary=Stimulus
3	not know	past · do-support	King	dictionary		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	forget	past · perfect	King	dictionary	the rank and file		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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