The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 38
What great waves there were in the gutter, and what a swift current!
Who acts: great waves · What happens: current
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 (great waves), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 waves | nsubj |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 waves | amod |
| 3 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waves | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gutter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gutter | det |
| 8 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 were | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 current | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 current | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 current | nsubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 current | det |
| 13 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 current | amod |
| 14 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waves | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 waves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | current | great waves and a swift current | 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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