The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 3

The first words that they heard in this world, when the lid of the box in which they lay was taken off, were: ‘Hurrah, tin-soldiers!’

Who acts: words, first words · What happens: hear, lie, take off, be · To what, where: first words, world, box, lid, Hurrah

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 (words, first words), 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 words	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Hurrah	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 heard	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 words	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 taken	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lid	det
13	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taken	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 box	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 box	det
16	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lid	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lay	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 box	acl:relcl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux:pass
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heard	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 taken	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Hurrah	cop
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Hurrah	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 Hurrah	punct
28	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 soldiers	punct
30	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 soldiers	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 tin	punct
32	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 Hurrah	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 Hurrah	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 Hurrah	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	words = word	the first words	this world	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	lie	past	words = word		the box	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location
3	take off	past · passive		the lid of the box		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	past	the first words	Hurrah and tin soldiers		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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