Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 59
A great deal darker than in the tunnel, and narrower too, but the tin soldier continued firm, and lay at full length shouldering his musket.
Who acts: tin soldier, full length · What happens: continue, lay, shoulder · To what, where: full length, 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 (tin soldier, full length), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 deal | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deal | amod |
| 3 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 darker | nsubj |
| 4 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 tunnel | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tunnel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tunnel | det |
| 8 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 darker | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 narrower | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 narrower | cc |
| 11 | narrower | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 darker | conj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 narrower | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 continued | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldier | det |
| 16 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soldier | compound |
| 17 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | nsubj |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 darker | conj |
| 19 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 continued | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 continued | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 length | case |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 length | amod |
| 25 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 26 | shouldering | shoulder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 length | acl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 musket | nmod:poss |
| 28 | musket | musket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shouldering | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 darker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the tin soldier | firm property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the tin soldier not said here | full length | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination | ||||
| 3 | shoulder | gerund | full length not said here | deal'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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