Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 17

Then the playthings began to have their own games together, to pay visits, to have sham fights, and to give balls.

Who acts: playthings · What happens: begin, have, pay, give · To what, where: own games, visits, sham fights, balls

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 (playthings), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 playthings	det
3	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 have	mark
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 games	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 games	amod
9	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pay	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pay	mark
13	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
14	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pay	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 have	mark
17	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 pay	conj
18	sham	sham	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fights	compound
19	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 give	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 give	mark
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	conj
24	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the playthings		then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	have	to-infinitive	the playthings not said here	playthings's own games		together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Patient
3	pay	to-infinitive		visits			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
4	have	to-infinitive		sham fights			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient
5	give	to-infinitive	the playthings not said here	balls			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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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