The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 9

That was all very pretty; but the most beautiful thing was a little lady, who stood in the open doorway.

Who acts: That, beautiful thing, little lady · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: little lady, open doorway

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 (That, beautiful thing, little 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pretty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pretty	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pretty	advmod
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 lady	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 lady	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 beautiful	advmod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lady	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lady	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lady	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lady	amod
15	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pretty	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lady	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 doorway	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 doorway	det
21	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 doorway	amod
22	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pretty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	That			all, pretty property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the beautiful thing	a little lady			tree rules
3	stand	past	a little lady		the open doorway		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=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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