Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 38
The paper boat rocked up and down, and turned itself round sometimes so quickly that the tin soldier trembled; yet he remained firm; his countenance did not change; he looked straight before him, and shouldered his musket.
Who acts: paper boat, boy, countenance · What happens: rock up, turn, tremble, remain, not change, look · To what, where: boat, tin soldier, musket
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 (paper boat, boy, countenance), 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 boat | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boat | compound |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rocked | nsubj |
| 4 | rocked | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 rocked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 down | cc |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 up | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rocked | conj |
| 11 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 turned | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldier | det |
| 18 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 soldier | compound |
| 19 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 that | fixed |
| 20 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 soldier | acl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 remained | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 24 remained | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remained | nsubj |
| 24 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rocked | parataxis |
| 25 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 remained | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 change | punct |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 change | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 change | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 change | advmod |
| 31 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 remained | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 looked | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rocked | conj |
| 35 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 34 looked | advmod |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 looked | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 shouldered | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 shouldered | cc |
| 40 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rocked | conj |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 musket | nmod:poss |
| 42 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 shouldered | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock up | past | the paper boat | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the paper boat not said here | boat | quickly, round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | |||
| 3 | tremble | participle | the tin soldier not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | boy | firm property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not change | past · do-support | boy's countenance | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | past | boy | before countenance | straight property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before he=Theme | |||
| 7 | shoulder | past | the paper boat not said here | boy's musket | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent musket=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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