Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 16
When evening came, the other tin soldiers were all placed in the box, and the people of the house went to bed.
Who acts: evening, people · What happens: come, place, go · To what, where: other tin soldiers, box, bed
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 (evening, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiers | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 soldiers | amod |
| 7 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soldiers | compound |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | aux:pass |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 placed | advmod |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 box | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 box | det |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 went | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the other tin soldiers | the box | all property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in box=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the people of the house | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location |
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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