Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 34
When it was over, two boys happened to pass by, and one of them said, "Look, there is a tin soldier.
Who acts: head, two boys, one, tin soldier · What happens: be, happen, pass by, say, look · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, two boys, one, tin soldier), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 over | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 over | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 happened | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 over | punct |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 boys | nummod |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pass | mark |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 happened | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 pass | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 said | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 one | nmod |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Look | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Look | punct |
| 20 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Look | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 soldier | det |
| 25 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 soldier | compound |
| 26 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | head | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | past | two boys | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass by | to-infinitive | two boys not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | one of drops | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | a tin soldier | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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