The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 89
‘I shall win the king’s daughter!’ they both cried.
Who acts: I, braces · What happens: win, cry · To what, where: daughter
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 (I, braces), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 win | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 win | aux |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | both | both | ADV | _ | 13 cried | advmod |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | shall | I | the king's daughter | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | braces = brace | both property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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