The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 80
There was nothing left of the little Dancer but her gilt rose, burnt as black as a cinder.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, leave
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 (nothing), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nothing | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Dancer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Dancer | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dancer | amod |
| 8 | Dancer | Dancer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 rose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rose | amod |
| 12 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nothing | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burnt | punct |
| 14 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nothing | amod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 black | case |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 burnt | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 cinder | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cinder | det |
| 19 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burnt | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | of the little Dancer | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of dancer=Initial_Location |
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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