The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 5
Each soldier was exactly like the other in shape, except just one, who had been made last when the tin had run short; but there he stood as firmly on his one leg as the others did on two, and he is the one that became famous.
Who acts: soldier, boy, others, one · What happens: be, make, run, stand, do, become · To what, where: shape, tin, one leg, two, one
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 (soldier, boy, others, one), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 other | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 other | cop |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 other | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 other | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shape | case |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 other | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 other | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 one | parataxis |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 made | xcomp |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 run | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tin | det |
| 22 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 run | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 run | aux |
| 24 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 made | advcl |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 run | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 stood | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 stood | cc |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 stood | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stood | nsubj |
| 30 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 other | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 firmly | advmod |
| 32 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 30 stood | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 leg | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 leg | nmod:poss |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 leg | nummod |
| 36 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 did | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 others | det |
| 39 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 did | nsubj |
| 40 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stood | advcl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 two | case |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 did | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 one | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 one | cc |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 one | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 one | cop |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 one | det |
| 48 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stood | parataxis |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 became | nsubj |
| 50 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 one | acl:relcl |
| 51 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 became | xcomp |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 other | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | each soldier | shape | exactly, other property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | last property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | run | past · perfect · passive | the tin | short property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | boy | boy's one leg; there | firmly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | |||
| 5 | do | past | the others | two | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | boy | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | become | past | the one | famous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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