Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 129

It was--only think!--it was really the tin soldier, the very same which had been lost up in the old man's room, and had been hidden among old wood and rubbish for a long time, till it sunk into the earth, where it must have been for many years.

Who acts: earth · What happens: be, lose up, hide, sink · To what, where: tin soldier, room, old wood, earth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (earth), 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 think	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 think	cop
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 soldier	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 soldier	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 soldier	cop
10	really	really	ADV	_	13 soldier	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soldier	det
12	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 soldier	compound
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 same	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 same	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 same	advmod
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 soldier	appos
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lost	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lost	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 lost	aux:pass
21	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 same	acl:relcl
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 lost	compound:prt
23	in	in	ADP	_	28 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 room	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 man	case
28	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lost	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hidden	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hidden	cc
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hidden	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 hidden	aux:pass
33	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 think	conj
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 wood	amod
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hidden	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rubbish	cc
38	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wood	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 time	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 time	det
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 time	amod
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wood	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 sunk	punct
44	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 sunk	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 sunk	nsubj
46	sunk	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hidden	conj
47	into	into	ADP	_	49 earth	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 earth	det
49	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sunk	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 years	punct
51	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 years	advmod
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 years	nsubj
53	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 years	aux
54	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 years	aux
55	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 years	cop
56	for	for	ADP	_	58 years	case
57	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 years	amod
58	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 earth	parataxis
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	earth				think property	tree rules
2	is a	past	earth	the tin soldier				tree rules
3	lose up	past · perfect · passive			the old man's room			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	hide	past · perfect · passive	earth not said here		old wood for a long time and rubbish			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: among wood=Location
5	sink	past	earth		the earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	must · perfect	earth			for many years		tree rules

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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