The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 16
When the night came all the other tin-soldiers went into their box, and the people of the house went to bed.
Who acts: night, other tin soldiers, people · What happens: come, go · To what, where: box, bed
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 (night, other tin soldiers, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:3878): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | advcl |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 soldiers | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 soldiers | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soldiers | amod |
| 8 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soldiers | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tin | punct |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 box | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 box | nmod:poss |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 went | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | all other tin soldiers | soldiers's box | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into box=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the people of the house | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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