--- title: The little lady was stretching out both her arms, for she was a Danc… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The little lady was stretching out both her arms, for she was a Dancer, and was lifting up one leg so high in the air that the Tin-soldier couldn’t find it anywhere, and thought that she, too, had only one leg. Who acts: little lady, lady, Tin soldier. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little lady, lady, Tin soldier), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:50:11 # text = The little lady was stretching out both her arms, for she was a Dancer, and was lifting up one leg so high in the air that the Tin-soldier couldn’t find it anywhere, and thought that she, too, had only one leg. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 both both ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Dancer dancer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 34 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 41 that that ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 too too ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 47 only only ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 49 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch out** | past · progressive | the little lady | | | | | both lady's arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | lady | | | | | for a Dancer | tree rules | | 3 | **lift up** | past · progressive | the little lady *not said here* | one leg | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | | 4 | **not** **find** | could | the Tin soldier | leg | | | | anywhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the little lady *not said here* | | | | | that lady | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | past | the little lady *not said here* | one leg | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/12/) - ↑ back to [The Steadfast Tin-soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/)