The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 79

Then the Tin-soldier melted down into a little lump, and when next morning the maid was taking out the ashes, she found him in the shape of a heart.

Who acts: Tin soldier, maid, door · What happens: melt down, take out, find · To what, where: little lump, ashes, lay, shape

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 (Tin soldier, maid, door), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 melted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 soldier	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Tin	punct
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	nsubj
6	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 melted	compound:prt
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 lump	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lump	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lump	amod
11	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 melted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 taking	advmod
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 morning	amod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	obl:unmarked
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maid	det
18	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taking	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taking	aux
20	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 found	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 taking	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ashes	det
23	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 taking	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taking	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 melted	parataxis
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 shape	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shape	det
30	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shape	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 melted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	melt down	participle	the Tin soldier		a little lump	then	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into lump=Product
2	take out	past · progressive	the maid	the ashes		morning	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ash=Theme
3	find	past	door	lay	the shape of a heart		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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