Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 75

The tin soldier melted down into a lump, and the next morning, when the maid servant took the ashes out of the stove, she found him in the shape of a little tin heart.

Who acts: tin soldier, servant · What happens: melt down, take, find · To what, where: tin soldier, lump, ashes, stove, door, shape

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, servant), 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	3 soldier	det
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	compound
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	nsubj
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 soldier	acl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 melted	compound:prt
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 lump	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lump	det
8	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 morning	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 morning	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 morning	amod
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soldier	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 took	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 servant	det
17	maid	maid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 servant	amod
18	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	nsubj
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ashes	det
21	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 took	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 stove	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 stove	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stove	det
25	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 shape	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 shape	det
32	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 heart	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 heart	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 heart	amod
36	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heart	compound
37	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shape	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	melt down	participle		the tin soldier not said here	a lump	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into lump=Product
2	take	past	the tin soldier	the ashes	the stove	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ash=Theme out stove=Initial_Location
3	find	past	servant	door	the shape of a little tin heart	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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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