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title: It was--only think!--it was really the tin soldier, the very same wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was--only think!--it was really the tin soldier, the very same which had been lost up in the old man's room, and had been hidden among old wood and rubbish for a long time, till it sunk into the earth, where it must have been for many years. Who acts: earth. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 129

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It was--only think!--it was really the tin soldier, the very same which had been lost up in the old man's room, and had been hidden among old wood and rubbish for a long time, till it sunk into the earth, where it must have been for many years.

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**Who acts:** earth · **What happens:** be, lose up, hide, sink · **To what, where:** tin soldier, room, old wood, earth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (earth), 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:pg27200:131:129
# text = It was--only think!--it was really the tin soldier, the very same which had been lost up in the old man's room, and had been hidden among old wood and rubbish for a long time, till it sunk into the earth, where it must have been for many years.
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	appos	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
34	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	sunk	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
47	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
51	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	58	advmod	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
53	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
54	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	aux	_	_
55	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	58	cop	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | think *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | earth | the tin soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose up** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the old man's room |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hide** | past · perfect · passive | earth *not said here* |  |  | old wood for a long time and rubbish |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: among wood=Location |
| 5 | **sink** | past | earth |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | must · perfect | earth |  |  |  | for many years |  | tree rules |

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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:** «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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