The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 60
‘Forward, forward, soldier bold!
Who acts: you · What happens: soldier · To what, where: bold
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 (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Forward | punct |
| 2 | Forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 soldier | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forward | punct |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 Forward | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldier | punct |
| 6 | soldier | soldier | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | bold | bold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soldier | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 soldier | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soldier | imperative | you not said here | bold | forward property | tree rules |
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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