The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 20
The only two who did not stir from their places were the Tin-soldier and the little Dancer.
Who acts: only two, places · What happens: not stir, be · To what, where: Tin soldier
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 (only two, places), 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 | 3 two | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 two | amod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 stir | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stir | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stir | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stir | advmod |
| 7 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 soldier | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 places | nmod:poss |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soldier | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 soldier | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 13 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 soldier | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tin | punct |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stir | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Dancer | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Dancer | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Dancer | amod |
| 19 | Dancer | Dancer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 soldier | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stir | past · do-support | the only two | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | crackers's places | the Tin soldier and the little Dancer | tree rules |
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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