The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 180
So saying, he turned his pockets inside out, and threw the mud right in his face.
Who acts: HANS · What happens: say, turn, throw · To what, where: pockets, mud, face · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 turned | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | obj | |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 out | advmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threw | cc |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mud | det |
| 14 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obj |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 threw | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | HANS not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | HANS | HANS's pockets | out property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pocket=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | past | HANS not said here | the mud | HANS's face | right property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mud=Theme in face=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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