The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 55
Now he was so near to it that he could not hold on any longer.
Who acts: tunnel · What happens: be, not hold on · To what, where: gutter
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 (tunnel), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 near | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 near | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 near | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 near | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 near | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 hold | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hold | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 hold | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 hold | advmod |
| 12 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 near | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hold | compound:prt |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 longer | advmod |
| 15 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 hold | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 near | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tunnel | gutter | now | near property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not hold on | could | tunnel | long property | vn exist-47.1 «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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