The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 49
The boat sped on, and the rat behind it.
What happens: speed on · To what, where: boat
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: 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 | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 boat | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 sped | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rat | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rat | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | conj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rat | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 boat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed on | participle | the boat and the rat behind boat not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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