The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 76
All his colour had disappeared; whether this had happened on his travels or whether it was the result of trouble, who can say?
Who acts: colour, this, trouble · What happens: disappear, happen, travel, be, say · To what, where: result · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (colour, this, trouble), 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 | 3 colour | det:predet |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 colour | nmod:poss |
| 3 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disappeared | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 disappeared | aux |
| 5 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 happened | punct |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 happened | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 disappeared | conj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 travels | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 travels | nmod:poss |
| 13 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | advcl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 result | cc |
| 15 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 result | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 result | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 result | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 result | det |
| 19 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travels | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 trouble | case |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 result | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 say | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 say | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 say | aux |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 trouble | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past · perfect | lay's colour | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | this not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | colour | the result | of trouble | tree rules | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | can | trouble | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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