The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 177
And the reporters giggled, and each dropped a blot of ink on the floor.
Who acts: reporters, each · What happens: giggle, drop · To what, where: blot, floor
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 (reporters, each), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 giggled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reporters | det |
| 3 | reporters | reporter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 giggled | nsubj |
| 4 | giggled | giggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dropped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dropped | cc |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 dropped | nsubj |
| 8 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 giggled | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blot | det |
| 10 | blot | blot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dropped | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ink | case |
| 12 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blot | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dropped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 giggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | giggle | past | the reporters | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drop | past | each | a blot of ink | the floor | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blot=Theme on floor=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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