The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 66

Then it was as if a flash of lightning had passed through him; the daylight streamed in, and a voice exclaimed, ‘Why, here is the little Tin-soldier!’

Who acts: length, voice · What happens: be, pass, stream, exclaim · To what, where: flash, daylight, little Tin soldier

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 (length, voice), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 flash	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 flash	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flash	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 flash	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 flash	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flash	det
7	flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 lightning	case
9	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flash	nmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 passed	aux
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 soldier	advcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 passed	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 daylight	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 daylight	det
16	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	parataxis
17	streamed	stream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 daylight	acl
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 streamed	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 exclaimed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 exclaimed	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 voice	det
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 exclaimed	nsubj
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 passed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Why	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Why	punct
26	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 passed	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 here	punct
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 passed	advmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 soldier	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 soldier	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 soldier	amod
32	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 soldier	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 Tin	punct
34	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 soldier	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 soldier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	length			then	as a flash; of lightning	tree rules
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		a flash	here		through fish	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through he=Destination
3	stream	participle		the daylight not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	exclaim speech: express	participle	a voice					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present		the little Tin soldier				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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