Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 36
So they made a boat out of a newspaper, and placed the tin soldier in it, and sent him sailing down the gutter, while the two boys ran by the side of it, and clapped their hands.
Who acts: soldiers, boy, two boys · What happens: make, place, send, sail, run, clap · To what, where: boat, newspaper, tin soldier, boy, gutter, hands
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 (soldiers, boy, two boys), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boat | det |
| 5 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 newspaper | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 newspaper | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 newspaper | det |
| 9 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldier | det |
| 14 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soldier | compound |
| 15 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sent | obj |
| 22 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sent | xcomp |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 gutter | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gutter | det |
| 25 | gutter | gutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sailing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 ran | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 boys | det |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 boys | nummod |
| 30 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sent | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 side | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 side | det |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 side | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 clapped | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 clapped | cc |
| 39 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hands | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 clapped | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | soldiers = soldier | a boat | a newspaper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product | |||
| 2 | place | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | the tin soldier | boat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in it=Destination | |||
| 3 | send | past | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sail | gerund | boy not said here | the gutter | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent down gutter=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | run | past | the two boys | by the side of boat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | clap | past | soldiers = soldier not said here | soldiers's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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