The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 17
Then the toys began to play at visiting, dancing, and fighting.
Who acts: toys · What happens: begin, play · To what, where: visiting
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 (toys), 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 | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 toys | det |
| 3 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 play | mark |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 visiting | case |
| 8 | visiting | visiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dancing | punct |
| 10 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visiting | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fighting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fighting | cc |
| 13 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the toys | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | the toys not said here | visiting and dancing | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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