Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 45
But the tin soldier remained silent and held his musket tighter than ever.
Who acts: tin soldier · What happens: remain, hold
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 3 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soldier | compound |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remained | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 held | cc |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 remained | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 musket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tighter | nsubj |
| 11 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 held | ccomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 ever | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 tighter | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the tin soldier | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the tin soldier not said here | 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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