Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 66
It touched the tin soldier so much to see her that he almost wept tin tears, but he kept them back.
Who acts: other, fish · What happens: touch, see, weep, keep back · To what, where: tin soldier, thing, tin tears, soldiers
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 (other, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 touched | nsubj |
| 2 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 4 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soldier | compound |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 touched | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 touched | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 touched | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 wept | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wept | nsubj |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 14 wept | advmod |
| 14 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | advcl |
| 15 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tears | compound |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wept | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 touched | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 kept | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | other | the tin soldier | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme soldier=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | other not said here | thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | fish | tin tears | almost property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep back | past | fish | soldiers = soldier | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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