The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 2
Their uniform was red and blue, and they shouldered their guns and looked straight in front of them.
Who acts: uniform, brothers · What happens: be, shoulder, look · To what, where: guns
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 (uniform, brothers), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 uniform | nmod:poss |
| 2 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 red | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 red | cop |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blue | cc |
| 6 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 red | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shouldered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shouldered | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shouldered | nsubj |
| 10 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 red | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 guns | nmod:poss |
| 12 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shouldered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shouldered | conj |
| 15 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 front | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 front | case |
| 17 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 front | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 red | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brothers's uniform | red property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | brothers's uniform not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | shoulder | past | brothers = brother | brothers's guns | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | brothers = brother not said here | in front of brothers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=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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