The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 70
He saw the same children, and the same toys on the table; and there was the same grand castle with the pretty little Dancer.
Who acts: fish · What happens: see, be · To what, where: same children, same grand castle
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 toys | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 toys | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 toys | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 toys | amod |
| 10 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toys | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 castle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 castle | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 castle | amod |
| 20 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 castle | amod |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Dancer | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Dancer | det |
| 24 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Dancer | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Dancer | amod |
| 26 | Dancer | Dancer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 castle | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fish | the same children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the same grand castle | with the pretty little Dancer | 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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