Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 3

The first thing in the world they ever heard were the words, "Tin soldiers!" uttered by a little boy, who clapped his hands with delight when the lid of the box, in which they lay, was taken off.

Who acts: brothers, first thing, little boy, lid · What happens: hear, be, utter, clap, lay, take off · To what, where: world, words, Tin soldiers, hands, delight

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, first thing, little boy, lid), 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 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 words	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thing	nmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 heard	advmod
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 world	acl:relcl
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 words	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 words	det
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 taken	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 soldiers	punct
15	Tin	tin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 soldiers	amod
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 taken	nsubj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 soldiers	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 soldiers	punct
19	uttered	utter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 soldiers	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 boy	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 boy	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 boy	amod
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 uttered	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 clapped	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 clapped	nsubj
26	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 boy	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 clapped	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 delight	case
30	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clapped	obl
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 lay	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lid	det
33	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lay	nsubj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 box	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 box	det
36	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lid	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lay	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 which	case
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 lay	obl
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 lay	nsubj
41	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 delight	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 soldiers	punct
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 taken	aux:pass
44	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
45	off	off	ADP	_	44 taken	compound:prt
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	brothers = brother	the world not said here		ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the first thing in the world	the words				tree rules
3	utter speech: other	participle		Tin soldiers not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	clap	past	a little boy	boy's hands			with delight	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
5	lay	present	the lid of the box		delight			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination
6	take off	past · passive		the words				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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