The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 62
The paper came in two, and the soldier fell--but at that moment he was swallowed by a great fish.
Who acts: paper, soldier, great fish · What happens: come in, fall, swallow · To what, where: two, paper
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 (paper, soldier, great fish), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 paper | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 two | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 swallowed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 swallowed | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 moment | det |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swallowed | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fish | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fish | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fish | amod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swallowed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the paper | two | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the soldier | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | swallow | past · passive | a great fish | paper | moment | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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