The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 28

That was a terrible fall, I can tell you!

Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: terrible fall, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, I), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 fall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fall	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fall	amod
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fall	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fall	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a terrible fall					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	can	I		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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