Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 1

There were once five-and-twenty tin soldiers, who were all brothers, for they had been made out of the same old tin spoon.

Who acts: five twenty tin soldiers · What happens: be, make out · To what, where: brothers, same old tin spoon

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave 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 (five twenty tin soldiers), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	advmod
4	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 soldiers	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 soldiers	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 soldiers	cc
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 soldiers	nummod
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soldiers	compound
10	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 once	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brothers	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 brothers	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brothers	cop
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 brothers	det
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 soldiers	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 made	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 made	aux:pass
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 brothers	acl:relcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	28 spoon	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	28 spoon	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 spoon	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spoon	amod
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 spoon	amod
27	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 spoon	compound
28	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	five twenty tin soldiers	all brothers			tree rules
3	make out	past · perfect · passive		brothers = brother	the same old tin spoon		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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