The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 178
‘Ah! are those the great people?’ said Blockhead-Hans.
Who acts: great people, those · What happens: be, say · To what, where: those · 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 (great people, those), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 those | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 those | cop |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 those | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Blockhead | Blockhead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hans | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Blockhead | punct |
| 14 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the great people | those | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | those | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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