Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 2

They shouldered arms and looked straight before them, and wore a splendid uniform, red and blue.

Who acts: brothers · What happens: shoulder, look, wear · To what, where: arms, splendid uniform

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 (brothers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouldered	nsubj
2	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shouldered	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 looked	cc
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shouldered	conj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 them	advmod
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wore	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wore	cc
11	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shouldered	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 uniform	det
13	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 uniform	amod
14	uniform	uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wore	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 red	punct
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 uniform	appos
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 blue	cc
18	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 red	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shouldered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	shoulder	past	brothers = brother	arms		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	look	past	brothers = brother not said here		before brothers = brother	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before they=Theme
3	wear	past		a splendid uniform		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent uniform=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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