The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 88
He understood, besides this, how to embroider braces with roses and other flowers, and scrolls, for he was very ready with his fingers.
Who acts: member · What happens: understand, embroider, scroll, be · To what, where: braces
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 (member), 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 understood | nsubj |
| 2 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 4 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 understood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 embroider | punct |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 embroider | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 embroider | mark |
| 9 | embroider | embroider | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 understood | parataxis |
| 10 | braces | brace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 embroider | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 roses | case |
| 12 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 embroider | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flowers | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flowers | amod |
| 15 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 roses | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scrolls | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scrolls | cc |
| 18 | scrolls | scroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 understood | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 ready | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 ready | advmod |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scrolls | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 fingers | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ready | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | member | besides this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | embroider | to-infinitive | braces | with roses and other flowers | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent brace=Destination with rose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scroll | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | member | with member's fingers; ready property | 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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