The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 183

Blockhead-Hans became King, got a wife and a crown, and sat on the throne; and this we have still damp from the newspaper of the editor and the reporters--and they are not to be believed for a moment.

Who acts: Blockhead · What happens: become, get, sit, not believe · To what, where: wife, throne, reporters

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 (Blockhead), 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	Blockhead	blockhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Blockhead	punct
3	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wife	det
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crown	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crown	det
12	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wife	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 throne	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 throne	det
18	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 damp	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 damp	cc
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 damp	nsubj
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 damp	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 damp	aux
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 damp	advmod
25	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 became	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 newspaper	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 newspaper	det
28	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 damp	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 editor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 editor	det
31	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 newspaper	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 reporters	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 reporters	det
34	reporters	reporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 editor	conj
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	42 believed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 believed	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 believed	nsubj:pass
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 believed	aux:pass
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 believed	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	42 believed	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 believed	aux:pass
42	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	parataxis
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 moment	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 moment	det
45	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 believed	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	become	past	Blockhead				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	get	past	Blockhead not said here	a wife and a crown			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
3	sit	past	Blockhead not said here		the throne		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
4	not believe	present · passive		reporters = reporter		moment	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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