The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 29
He landed on his head with his leg in the air, his gun being wedged between two paving-stones.
Who acts: canary · What happens: land, wedge · To what, where: head, gun, two paving stones
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 (canary), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 landed | nsubj |
| 2 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landed | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 leg | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 leg | nmod:poss |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landed | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 landed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wedged | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gun | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wedged | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 wedged | aux:pass |
| 16 | wedged | wedge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 landed | conj |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 stones | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 stones | nummod |
| 19 | paving | paving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stones | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 paving | punct |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wedged | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | canary | canary's head | with canary's leg; in the air | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on head=Destination | |||
| 2 | wedge | gerund · passive | canary's gun | two paving stones | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between stone=Destination |
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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