The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 40

All at once the boat passed under a long tunnel that was as dark as his box had been.

Who acts: All, long tunnel · What happens: pass, be, have · To what, where: long tunnel

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 (All, long tunnel), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 passed	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 boat	case
3	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 boat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 tunnel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tunnel	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tunnel	amod
10	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 dark	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 dark	advmod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tunnel	acl:relcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 box	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 box	nmod:poss
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	obl
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	advcl
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 had	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	All	a long tunnel		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tunnel=Location
2	is	past	a long tunnel		as boy's box; dark property	tree rules
3	have	past	a long tunnel not said here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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