The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 170

‘Here is a cooking implement with tin rings,’ and he drew out the old wooden shoe, and laid the crow in it.

Who acts: cooking implement, pleasure · What happens: be, draw out, lay · To what, where: old wooden shoe, crow, implement

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 (cooking implement, pleasure), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 implement	det
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 implement	compound
6	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 rings	case
8	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rings	compound
9	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 implement	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 implement	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drew	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 drew	nsubj
14	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 drew	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shoe	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shoe	amod
18	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shoe	amod
19	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drew	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 laid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 laid	cc
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crow	det
24	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 laid	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a cooking implement with tin rings			here property	tree rules
2	draw out	past	pleasure	the old wooden shoe			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme
3	lay	past	a cooking implement with tin rings not said here	the crow	implement		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crow=Theme in it=Destination

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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