The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 21

She remained on tip-toe, with both arms outstretched; he stood steadfastly on his one leg, never moving his eyes from her face.

Who acts: two, arms, noise · What happens: remain, outstretch, stand, not move · To what, where: tip toe, one leg, eyes, face

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 (two, arms, noise), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 toe	case
4	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 toe	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tip	punct
6	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remained	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 outstretched	punct
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 outstretched	mark
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 arms	det
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 outstretched	nsubj
11	outstretched	outstretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stood	nsubj
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
15	steadfastly	steadfastly	ADV	_	14 stood	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 leg	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 leg	nmod:poss
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 leg	nummod
19	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 moving	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 moving	advmod
22	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stood	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 eyes	nmod:poss
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 moving	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 face	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 face	nmod:poss
27	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 moving	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	two		tip toe		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Location
2	outstretch	past	both arms				tree rules
3	stand	past	noise		noise's one leg	steadfastly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location
4	not move	gerund	noise not said here	noise's eyes	two's face		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from face=Trajectory

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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