Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 52

He was too close to it to stop, so the boat rushed on, and the poor tin soldier could only hold himself as stiffly as possible, without moving an eyelid, to show that he was not afraid.

Who acts: arch, boat, poor tin soldier · What happens: be, stop, rush on, hold, move, show · To what, where: drain, arch, eyelid

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 (arch, boat, poor 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 close	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 close	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 close	advmod
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 close	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 close	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rushed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 rushed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rushed	nsubj
13	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 close	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 rushed	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hold	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hold	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 soldier	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 soldier	amod
19	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 soldier	compound
20	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hold	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 hold	advmod
23	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 close	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hold	obj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 stiffly	advmod
26	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	23 hold	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 possible	mark
28	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stiffly	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 moving	punct
30	without	without	SCONJ	_	31 moving	mark
31	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hold	advcl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 eyelid	det
33	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 moving	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 show	punct
35	to	to	PART	_	36 show	mark
36	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 hold	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 afraid	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 afraid	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 afraid	cop
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 afraid	advmod
41	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 show	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	arch		drain	close property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	arch not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	rush on	participle	the boat				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold	could	the poor tin soldier	arch		stiffly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	move	gerund	the poor tin soldier not said here	a eyelid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eyelid=Theme
6	show	to-infinitive	the poor tin soldier not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	past	arch			afraid property	tree rules

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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