The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 77

He looked at the little lady, she looked at him, and he felt that he was melting; but he remained steadfast, with his gun at his shoulder.

Who acts: lay, lady · What happens: look, feel, melt, remain

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 (lay, lady), 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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 lady	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looked	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 felt	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 felt	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looked	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 melting	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 melting	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 melting	aux
19	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 felt	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 remained	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 remained	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 remained	nsubj
23	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
24	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 remained	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gun	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 gun	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 gun	nmod:poss
28	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remained	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 shoulder	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulder	nmod:poss
31	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gun	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	past	lay	at the little lady	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lady=Theme
2	look	past	lady	at lay	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
3	feel	past	lay		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	melt	past · progressive	lay		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	remain	past	lay	with lay's gun at lay's shoulder; steadfast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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