The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 173
‘I have so much that I can quite well throw some away!’ and he poured some mud out of his pocket.
Who acts: I, HANS · What happens: have, throw away, pour · To what, where: some, mud, pocket
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 (I, HANS), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 have | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 throw | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 throw | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 throw | aux |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 11 throw | advmod |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 quite | fixed |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 throw | obj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 throw | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poured | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 poured | nsubj |
| 18 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mud | det |
| 20 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poured | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 pocket | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pocket | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 poured | obl | ||
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | throw away | can | I | some | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 3 | pour | past | HANS | some mud | HANS's pocket | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme out pocket=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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