The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 90

Their old father gave each of them a fine horse; the one who knew the dictionary and the daily paper by heart had a black horse, while the other who was so clever at corporation law had a milk-white one.

Who acts: old father, one, other · What happens: give, know, have, be · To what, where: each, dictionary, black horse, corporation law, white one

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 (old father, one, other), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gave	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 each	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 horse	amod
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dictionary	det
17	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 paper	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 paper	det
20	daily	daily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 paper	amod
21	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dictionary	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 heart	case
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	obl
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 horse	det
26	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 horse	amod
27	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 clever	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 clever	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 clever	nsubj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 clever	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 clever	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 clever	advmod
35	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 had	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 law	case
37	corporation	corporation	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 law	compound
38	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 clever	obl
39	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 clever	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 one	det
41	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 white	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 milk	punct
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 one	amod
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 had	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	braces's old father	each			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient horse=Theme
2	know	past	the one	the dictionary and the daily paper		by heart	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer dictionary=Stimulus
3	have	past	the one	a black horse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	is	past	the other		corporation law	clever property	tree rules
5	have	past	the other not said here	a white one			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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