The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 167
‘That’s good!’ replied Blockhead-Hans; ‘then can I roast a crow with them?’
Who acts: That, Blockhead, I · What happens: be, reply, roast · To what, where: crow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Blockhead, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 good | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Blockhead | Blockhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Blockhead | punct |
| 10 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Blockhead | flat |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 roast | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 roast | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 roast | advmod |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 roast | aux |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 roast | nsubj |
| 16 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 crow | det |
| 18 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roast | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 roast | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 roast | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 roast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Blockhead | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | roast | can | I | a crow | then | with chickens = chicken | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent crow=Patient with they=Instrument |
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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