The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 48
But the Tin-soldier was silent, and grasped his gun more firmly.
Who acts: Tin soldier · What happens: be, grasp · To what, where: 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 (Tin soldier), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 silent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 3 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 soldier | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tin | punct |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 silent | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 silent | cop |
| 7 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grasped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grasped | cc |
| 10 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 silent | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gun | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grasped | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 firmly | advmod |
| 14 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 10 grasped | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tin soldier | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grasp | past | rat's gun | firmly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gun=Stimulus |
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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