The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 162
Now Blockhead-Hans came in; he rode his goat right into the hall.
Who acts: Blockhead · What happens: come in, ride · To what, where: goat, hall
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | Blockhead | Blockhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hans | punct |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Blockhead | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 rode | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 goat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obj |
| 12 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 hall | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rode | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | Blockhead Hans | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | BLOCKHEAD | BLOCKHEAD's goat | the hall | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme into hall=Trajectory |
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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