The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 18

The tin-soldiers rattled in their box, for they wanted to be out too, but they could not raise the lid.

Who acts: tin soldiers, soldiers · What happens: rattle, want, be, not raise · To what, where: box, lid

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 (tin soldiers, soldiers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 soldiers	det
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soldiers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tin	punct
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rattled	nsubj
5	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 box	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 box	nmod:poss
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rattled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 wanted	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rattled	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	15 out	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 out	cop
15	out	out	ADV	_	12 wanted	advmod
16	too	too	ADV	_	15 out	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raise	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 raise	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 raise	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 raise	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 raise	advmod
22	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lid	det
24	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 raise	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rattled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rattle	participle	the tin soldiers		soldiers's box		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location
2	want	past	soldiers = soldier				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	to-infinitive				out property	tree rules
4	not raise	could	soldiers = soldier	the lid			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme

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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