--- title: So they made a boat out of a newspaper, and placed the tin soldier i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: So they made a boat out of a newspaper, and placed the tin soldier in it, and sent him sailing down the gutter, while the two boys ran by the side of it, and clapped their hands. Who acts: soldiers, boy, two boys. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Ti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Brave Tin Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/) / 36 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 36 So they made a boat out of a newspaper, and placed the tin soldier in it, and sent him sailing down the gutter, while the two boys ran by the side of it, and clapped their hands. **Who acts:** soldiers, boy, two boys · **What happens:** make, place, send, sail, run, clap · **To what, where:** boat, newspaper, tin soldier, boy, gutter, hands 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 (soldiers, boy, two boys), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:192:36 # text = So they made a boat out of a newspaper, and placed the tin soldier in it, and sent him sailing down the gutter, while the two boys ran by the side of it, and clapped their hands. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 sailing sail VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 23 down down ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 gutter gutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 clapped clap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | a boat | | a newspaper | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product | | 2 | **place** | past | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | the tin soldier | | boat | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in it=Destination | | 3 | **send** | past | | boy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sail** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | the gutter | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent down gutter=Trajectory | | 5 | **run** | past | the two boys | | | | | by the side of boat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | | 6 | **clap** | past | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | soldiers's hands | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/37/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Tin Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/)