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title: It was the pewter soldier, he that was lost up at the old man's, and… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the pewter soldier, he that was lost up at the old man's, and had tumbled and turned about amongst the timber and the rubbish, and had at last laid for many years in the ground. Who acts: mould. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 113

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It was the pewter soldier, he that was lost up at the old man's, and had tumbled and turned about amongst the timber and the rubbish, and had at last laid for many years in the ground.

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**Who acts:** mould · **What happens:** be, lose up, tumble, turn about, have, lay · **To what, where:** pewter soldier, relief, timber, last, ground

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mould), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:19:113
# text = It was the pewter soldier, he that was lost up at the old man's, and had tumbled and turned about amongst the timber and the rubbish, and had at last laid for many years in the ground.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pewter	pewter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	_
35	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | mould | the pewter soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose up** | past · passive |  | relief |  |  |  | at the old man | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tumble** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **turn about** | past |  |  |  | the timber and the rubbish |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme amongst timber=Trajectory |
| 5 | **have** | past |  |  |  | last |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lay** | participle |  |  |  | the ground | year |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in ground=Destination |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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