The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 69

They put him on the table, and--no, but what strange things do happen in this world!--the Tin-soldier was in the same room in which he had been before!

Who acts: soldiers, Tin soldier, fish · What happens: put, happen, be · To what, where: fish, table, world, same room

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 (soldiers, Tin soldier, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 happen	cc
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	17 happen	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 happen	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 happen	nsubj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 put	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 happen	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 room	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 soldier	det
24	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 soldier	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Tin	punct
26	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 room	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 room	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 room	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 room	det
30	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 room	amod
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 before	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 before	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 before	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 before	cop
37	before	before	ADV	_	31 room	advmod
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	soldiers = soldier	fish	the table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on table=Destination
2	happen	present · do-support			this world		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location
3	is	past	the Tin soldier		the same room		tree rules
4	is	past · perfect	fish		the same room	before 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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