The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 15

Then he stretched himself out behind a snuff-box that lay on the table; from thence he could watch the dainty little lady, who continued to stand on one leg without losing her balance.

Who acts: tin, snuff box, dainty little lady, lady · What happens: stretch out, lie, watch, continue, stand, lose · To what, where: tin, snuff box, table, dainty little lady, one leg, balance

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 (tin, snuff box, dainty little lady, lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stretched	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretched	nsubj
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 stretched	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 box	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
8	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snuff	punct
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 box	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 table	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 table	det
15	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 watch	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 thence	case
18	thence	thence	ADV	_	21 watch	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 watch	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 watch	aux
21	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stretched	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lady	det
23	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lady	amod
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 lady	amod
25	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 watch	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 continued	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 continued	nsubj
28	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lady	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stand	mark
30	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 continued	xcomp
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 leg	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 leg	nummod
33	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stand	obl
34	without	without	SCONJ	_	35 losing	mark
35	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 stand	advcl
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 balance	nmod:poss
37	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 losing	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	tin	tin	a snuff box	then		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	lie	past	a snuff box		the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location
3	watch	could	tin	the dainty little lady			thence property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
4	continue	past	the dainty little lady					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	stand	to-infinitive	the dainty little lady not said here		one leg			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
6	lose	gerund	the dainty little lady not said here	lady's balance				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality
7	balance		lady					nom balance «state intransitive»: poss=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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