Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 64
They were all anxious to see this wonderful soldier who had travelled about inside a fish; but he was not at all proud.
Who acts: soldiers, wonderful soldier, fish · What happens: be, see, travell, not be · To what, where: wonderful soldier, all
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 (soldiers, wonderful soldier, fish), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 anxious | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 anxious | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 anxious | advmod |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anxious | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 soldier | det |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 soldier | amod |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 travelled | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelled | aux |
| 12 | travelled | travell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 travelled | advmod |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 16 fish | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travelled | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 proud | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 proud | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 proud | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 proud | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 proud | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 proud | obl |
| 24 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 anxious | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | soldiers = soldier | all, anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | this wonderful soldier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | travell | past · perfect | this wonderful soldier | inside a fish; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | past | fish | all | proud 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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