Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 54

He now stood up to his neck in water, while deeper and deeper sank the boat, and the paper became soft and loose with the wet, till at last the water closed over the soldier's head.

Who acts: arch, deeper, paper · What happens: stand up, sink, become, close · To what, where: boat, last water, head

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, deeper, paper), 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	3 stood	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stood	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 neck	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sank	punct
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	15 sank	mark
12	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 sank	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 deeper	cc
14	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 deeper	conj
15	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boat	det
17	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sank	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 became	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 paper	det
21	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 became	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 loose	cc
25	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 soft	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 wet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wet	det
28	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 soft	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 water	punct
30	till	till	ADP	_	34 water	case
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 water	amod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
35	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 water	acl
36	over	over	ADP	_	40 head	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 soldier	det
38	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 head	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 soldier	case
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 closed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	arch			now	to arch's neck in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	deeper	the boat				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
3	become	past	the paper	the last water			soft property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	close	participle		the last water not said here	the soldier's head			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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