The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 58

The Tin-soldier was standing up to his neck in water, and deeper and deeper sank the boat, and softer and softer grew the paper; now the water was over his head.

Who acts: Tin soldier, deeper, softer, water · What happens: stand up, sink, grow, be · To what, where: boat, paper, head

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast 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, deeper, softer, water), 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	4 soldier	det
2	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soldier	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Tin	punct
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	aux
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 standing	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 neck	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neck	nmod:poss
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neck	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sank	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sank	cc
15	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 sank	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 deeper	cc
17	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 deeper	conj
18	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 standing	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boat	det
20	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sank	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grew	cc
23	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 grew	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 softer	cc
25	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 softer	conj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sank	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 paper	det
28	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 head	punct
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 head	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 head	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 head	cop
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 head	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 head	nmod:poss
36	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past · progressive	the Tin soldier				to tunnel's neck in water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sink	past	deeper	the boat				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient
3	grow	past	softer	the paper				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=Theme
4	is	past	the water		tunnel's head	now		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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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