The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 36
He shall sail up and down in a boat!’
Who acts: boy · What happens: sail up · To what, where: boat
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 (boy), 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 | 3 sail | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sail | aux |
| 3 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 sail | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 down | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 sail | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 boat | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 boat | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sail | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail up | shall | boy | a boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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