The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 72

That touched the Tin-soldier, he was nearly going to shed tin-tears; but that would not have been fitting for a soldier.

Who acts: That, fish · What happens: touch, go, shed, not fit · To what, where: Tin soldier, tin tears

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 (That, 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 soldier	det
4	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 soldier	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Tin	punct
6	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 touched	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 shed	mark
13	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	xcomp
14	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tears	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 tin	punct
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shed	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fitting	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 fitting	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 fitting	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 fitting	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 fitting	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 fitting	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 fitting	aux
24	fitting	fit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 touched	advcl
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 soldier	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 soldier	det
27	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fitting	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	touch	past	That	the Tin soldier		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soldier=Co-Theme
2	go	past · progressive	fish		nearly property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shed	to-infinitive	fish not said here	tin tears		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
4	not fit	would · perfect · progressive	that		for a soldier	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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