Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 18
The tin soldiers rattled in their box; they wanted to get out and join the amusements, but they could not open the lid.
Who acts: tin soldiers, soldiers · What happens: rattle, want, get out, join, not open · To what, where: tin soldiers, box, amusements, lid
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 (tin soldiers, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldiers | det |
| 2 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 soldiers | compound |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 4 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 soldiers | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 box | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 box | nmod:poss |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rattled | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 join | cc |
| 15 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 amusements | det |
| 17 | amusements | amusement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 join | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 open | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 open | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 open | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 open | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 open | advmod |
| 23 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lid | det |
| 25 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 open | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | participle | the tin soldiers not said here | soldiers's box | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location | ||||
| 2 | want | past | the tin soldiers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the tin soldiers not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | join | infinitive | the tin soldiers not said here | the amusements | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not open | could | soldiers = soldier | the lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=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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