The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 157
We are roasting young chickens to-day!’ remarked the Princess.
Who acts: We · What happens: roast, remark · To what, where: young chickens, Princess
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 roasting | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 roasting | aux |
| 3 | roasting | roast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chickens | amod |
| 5 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 roasting | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chickens | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 roasting | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 roasting | punct |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 roasting | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roasting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roast | present · progressive | We | young chickens | to day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | We not said here | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic |
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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