The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 176

By each window do you see there are standing three reporters and an old editor, and this old editor is the worst, for he doesn’t understand anything!’ but she only said this to tease Blockhead-Hans.

Who acts: you, old editor, paper, Princess · What happens: see, be, stand, not understand, say, tease · To what, where: three reporters, anything, this, Blockhead Hans · 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 (you, old editor, paper, Princess), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 window	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 are	expl
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 see	ccomp
9	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 are	xcomp
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 reporters	nummod
11	reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 standing	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 editor	cc
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 editor	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 editor	amod
15	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reporters	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worst	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 worst	cc
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 editor	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 editor	amod
20	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worst	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 worst	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 worst	det
23	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 see	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 understand	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 understand	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 understand	nsubj
27	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 understand	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 understand	advmod
29	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 worst	parataxis
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 understand	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 understand	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 understand	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 said	nsubj
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 said	advmod
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 see	conj
37	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 said	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 tease	mark
39	tease	tease	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 said	xcomp
40	Blockhead	Blockhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Hans	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 Blockhead	punct
42	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 tease	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · do-support	you			by each window	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	present			there		tree rules
3	stand	gerund		three reporters and a old editor			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reporter=Stimulus
4	is	present	this old editor			bad property	tree rules
5	not understand	present · do-support	paper	anything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	Princess	this			tree rules
7	tease	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	Blockhead Hans			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hans=Patient

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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