Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 28
When the children came in the next morning, they placed the tin soldier in the window.
Who acts: children · What happens: come, place · To what, where: tin soldier, window
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 (children), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldier | det |
| 13 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soldier | compound |
| 14 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the children | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | children = child | the tin soldier | the window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in window=Destination |
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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