The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 19

The nut-crackers played at leap-frog, and the slate-pencil ran about the slate; there was such a noise that the canary woke up and began to talk to them, in poetry too!

Who acts: nut crackers, slate pencil, noise, canary · What happens: play, run, be, wake up, begin, talk · To what, where: noise, crackers, poetry

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 (nut crackers, slate pencil, noise, canary), 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 crackers	det
2	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crackers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 nut	punct
4	crackers	cracker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 frog	case
7	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 frog	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 leap	punct
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pencil	det
13	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pencil	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 slate	punct
15	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	19 slate	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 slate	det
19	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	parataxis
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 noise	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 noise	det
25	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 woke	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 canary	det
28	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 woke	nsubj
29	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 noise	acl:relcl
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 woke	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 woke	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 talk	mark
34	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 talk	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 poetry	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 poetry	case
39	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 talk	obl
40	too	too	ADV	_	34 talk	advmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past	the nut crackers				at leap frog	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	the slate pencil				about the slate	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about slate=Trajectory
3	be	past	such noise			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wake up	past	the canary	such noise not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent noise=Patient
5	begin	past	the canary not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	to-infinitive	the canary not said here		crackers = cracker	poetry		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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