The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 61
Death’s before thee, grim and cold!’
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: 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grim | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Death | case |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 thee | case |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Death | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grim | punct |
| 6 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cold | cc |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grim | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 grim | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 grim | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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