The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 45
Suddenly there came along a great water-rat that lived in the tunnel.
Who acts: great water rat · What happens: come along, live · To what, where: great water rat, 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 (great water rat), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rat | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rat | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rat | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tunnel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tunnel | det |
| 14 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come along | past | a great water rat | there | along, suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a great water rat | the tunnel | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tunnel=Location |
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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