The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 64
But there the steadfast little Tin-soldier lay full length, shouldering his gun.
Who acts: steadfast little Tin soldier · What happens: lie, shoulder · To what, where: full length, gun
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 (steadfast little Tin soldier), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 lay | expl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldier | det |
| 4 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soldier | amod |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soldier | amod |
| 6 | Tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soldier | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tin | punct |
| 8 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 length | amod |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouldering | punct |
| 13 | shouldering | shoulder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lay | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gun | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouldering | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the steadfast little Tin soldier | full length | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme | |||
| 2 | shoulder | gerund | the steadfast little Tin soldier not said here | tunnel's gun | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=Theme |
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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