The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 22

The clock struck twelve, and crack! off flew the lid of the snuff-box; but there was no snuff inside, only a little black imp--that was the beauty of it.

Who acts: clock, snuff, that · What happens: strike, fly, be · To what, where: twelve, crack, beauty

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 (clock, snuff, that), 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	2 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	nsubj
3	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 struck	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flew	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flew	cc
7	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obl:unmarked
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 crack	punct
9	off	off	ADV	_	10 flew	advmod
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lid	det
12	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 box	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 box	det
15	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 snuff	punct
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lid	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 was	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struck	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 snuff	det
23	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	nsubj
24	inside	inside	ADV	_	21 was	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 imp	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 imp	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 imp	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 imp	amod
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 imp	amod
30	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struck	parataxis
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 beauty	punct
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 beauty	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 beauty	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 beauty	det
35	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 imp	appos
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 beauty	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	the clock	twelve			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	fly	past	the clock not said here	crack		off property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme
3	be	past	no snuff		there	inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	that	the beauty		of snuff	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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