The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 59
He was thinking of the pretty little Dancer, whose face he should never see again, and there sounded in his ears, over and over again:
Who acts: softer · What happens: think, not see, sound · To what, where: face, ears
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 (softer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Dancer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dancer | det |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dancer | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dancer | amod |
| 8 | Dancer | Dancer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 face | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Dancer | appos |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 face | acl:relcl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sounded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sounded | cc |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 sounded | advmod |
| 20 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ears | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 ears | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sounded | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 over | punct |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 sounded | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 over | cc |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 over | conj |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 over | advmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | softer = soft | of the pretty little Dancer | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not see | should | softer = soft | the pretty little Dancer's face not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sound | past | softer = soft not said here | softer's ears; there | over property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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