The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 37

So they made a little boat out of newspaper, put the Tin-soldier in it, and made him sail up and down the gutter; both the boys ran along beside him, clapping their hands.

Who acts: soldiers, boy, boys · What happens: make, put, sail up, run along, clap · To what, where: little boat, newspaper, Tin soldier, boat, boy, hands

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 (soldiers, boy, boys), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boat	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boat	amod
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 newspaper	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 newspaper	case
9	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
11	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldier	det
13	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 soldier	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Tin	punct
15	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obj
22	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	xcomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 sail	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gutter	cc
25	down	down	ADP	_	27 gutter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gutter	det
27	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sail	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 ran	punct
29	both	both	CCONJ	_	31 boys	cc:preconj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boys	det
31	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ran	nsubj
32	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
33	along	along	ADV	_	32 ran	advmod
34	beside	beside	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ran	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 clapping	punct
37	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 ran	advcl
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 hands	nmod:poss
39	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 clapping	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	soldiers = soldier	a little boat	newspaper		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product
2	put	infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	the Tin soldier	boat		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in it=Destination
3	make	past	soldiers = soldier not said here	boy			tree rules
4	sail up	infinitive	boy not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	run along	past	the boys			beside canary; along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory
6	clap	gerund	the boys not said here	soldiers's hands			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme

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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