The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 56

On went the boat, the poor Tin-soldier keeping himself as stiff as he could: no one should say of him afterwards that he had flinched.

Who acts: poor Tin soldier, one, tunnel · What happens: go, keep, say, flinch · To what, where: boat, tunnel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (poor Tin soldier, one, 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 went	mark
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soldier	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 soldier	amod
8	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 soldier	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Tin	punct
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boat	appos
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 soldier	acl
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 keeping	obj
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 stiff	advmod
14	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keeping	xcomp
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 could	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 could	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stiff	advcl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 say	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 say	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 say	aux
22	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 say	obl
25	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	22 say	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 flinched	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flinched	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 flinched	aux
29	flinched	flinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 say	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past		the boat		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boat=Theme
2	keep	gerund	the poor Tin soldier not said here	tunnel	stiff property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	say speech: assert	should	no one		of tunnel; afterwards property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	flinch	past · perfect	tunnel			vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=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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