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title: But the tin soldier remained silent and held his musket tighter than… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the tin soldier remained silent and held his musket tighter than ever. Who acts: tin soldier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 45

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But the tin soldier remained silent and held his musket tighter than ever.

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**Who acts:** tin soldier · **What happens:** remain, hold

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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), 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:pg27200:192:45
# text = But the tin soldier remained silent and held his musket tighter than ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	musket	musket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tighter	tight	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	ccomp	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the tin soldier |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the tin soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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