Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 113

It was the pewter soldier, he that was lost up at the old man's, and had tumbled and turned about amongst the timber and the rubbish, and had at last laid for many years in the ground.

Who acts: mould · What happens: be, lose up, tumble, turn about, have, lay · To what, where: pewter soldier, relief, timber, last, ground

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mould), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 soldier	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 soldier	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
4	pewter	pewter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldier	amod
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 lost	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux:pass
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 soldier	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 lost	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 man	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl
16	's	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tumbled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tumbled	cc
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tumbled	aux
20	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 soldier	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tumbled	conj
23	about	about	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	26 timber	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 timber	det
26	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rubbish	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 rubbish	det
29	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 timber	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 turned	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 last	case
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 had	obl
35	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 had	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 years	case
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 years	amod
38	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 laid	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 ground	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 laid	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 soldier	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mould	the pewter soldier				tree rules
2	lose up	past · passive		relief			at the old man	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	tumble	past · perfect						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	turn about	past			the timber and the rubbish		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme amongst timber=Trajectory
5	have	past			last			tree rules
6	lay	participle			the ground	year		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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