The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 39
The paper-boat tossed up and down, and in the middle of the stream it went so quick that the Tin-soldier trembled; but he remained steadfast, showed no emotion, looked straight in front of him, shouldering his gun.
Who acts: paper boat, Tin soldier, boy · What happens: toss up, go, tremble, remain, show, look · To what, where: paper boat, middle, emotion, gun
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 (paper boat, Tin soldier, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boat | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boat | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 paper | punct |
| 4 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 5 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 boat | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 tossed | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 down | cc |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 tossed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stream | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 quick | advmod |
| 20 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 trembled | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 soldier | det |
| 23 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 soldier | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Tin | punct |
| 25 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 trembled | nsubj |
| 26 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 quick | advcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 remained | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 remained | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 remained | nsubj |
| 30 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | parataxis |
| 31 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 remained | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 showed | punct |
| 33 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 remained | conj |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 emotion | det |
| 35 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 showed | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 looked | punct |
| 37 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 showed | conj |
| 38 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 40 front | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 front | case |
| 40 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 looked | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 front | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 shouldering | punct |
| 44 | shouldering | shoulder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 looked | advcl |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 gun | nmod:poss |
| 46 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 shouldering | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss up | participle | the paper boat not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the paper boat | the middle of the stream | quick property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location | |||
| 3 | tremble | participle | the Tin soldier | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | boy | steadfast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | past | boy not said here | no emotion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emotion=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | look | past | boy not said here | in front of boy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme | ||||
| 7 | shoulder | gerund | boy not said here | boy's gun | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=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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