The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 74

All at once one of the little boys took up the Tin-soldier, and threw him into the stove, giving no reasons; but doubtless the little black imp in the snuff-box was at the bottom of this too.

Who acts: little boys, little black imp · What happens: take up, throw, give, be · To what, where: Tin soldier, boy, stove, reasons, doubtless bottom

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 (little boys, little black imp), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 one	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 took	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 boys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boys	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boys	amod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 soldier	det
12	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 soldier	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Tin	punct
14	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 stove	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stove	det
21	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 giving	punct
23	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 threw	advcl
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 reasons	det
25	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 giving	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 bottom	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 bottom	cc
28	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bottom	amod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 imp	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 imp	amod
31	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 imp	amod
32	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bottom	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 box	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 box	det
35	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 box	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 snuff	punct
37	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 imp	nmod
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bottom	cop
39	at	at	ADP	_	41 bottom	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bottom	det
41	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 this	case
43	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 bottom	nmod
44	too	too	ADV	_	9 took	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take up	past	the little boys	the Tin soldier		at one	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme at one=Asset
2	throw	past	the little boys not said here	boy		into the stove result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into stove=Result
3	give	gerund	the little boys not said here	no reasons			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
4	is	past	the little black imp in the snuff box		the doubtless bottom	of this	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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