Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 6
The table on which the tin soldiers stood, was covered with other playthings, but the most attractive to the eye was a pretty little paper castle.
Who acts: tin soldiers · What happens: stand, cover, be · To what, where: table, attractive pretty little paper castle
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 soldiers), 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 | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldiers | det |
| 6 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soldiers | compound |
| 7 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 table | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 table | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 playthings | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 playthings | amod |
| 14 | playthings | plaything | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 castle | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 castle | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 attractive | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 attractive | advmod |
| 19 | attractive | attractive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 castle | amod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 eye | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eye | det |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attractive | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 castle | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 castle | det |
| 25 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 castle | amod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 castle | amod |
| 27 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 castle | compound |
| 28 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the tin soldiers | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the table | with other playthings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plaything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a attractive pretty little paper castle | 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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