The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 53
The Tin-soldier could already see daylight where the tunnel ended; but in his ears there sounded a roaring enough to frighten any brave man.
Who acts: Tin soldier, tunnel, ears · What happens: see, end, sound, roar, frighten · To what, where: daylight, brave man
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, tunnel, ears), 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 | 4 soldier | det |
| 2 | Tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soldier | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tin | punct |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 ended | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tunnel | det |
| 11 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ended | nsubj |
| 12 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 daylight | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sounded | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sounded | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 ears | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sounded | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ears | advmod |
| 19 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 roaring | det |
| 21 | roaring | roar | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sounded | advcl |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 roaring | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 frighten | mark |
| 24 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 roaring | advcl |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 man | det |
| 26 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 frighten | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | the Tin soldier | daylight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | end | past | the tunnel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | sound | past | tunnel's ears | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | roar | gerund | tunnel's ears not said here | enough property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | frighten | to-infinitive | tunnel's ears not said here | any brave man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
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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