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title: The soldiers were all exactly alike, excepting one, who had only one… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldiers were all exactly alike, excepting one, who had only one leg; he had been left to the last, and then there was not enough of the melted tin to finish him, so they made him to stand firmly on one leg, and this caused him to be very remarkable. Who acts: soldiers, lid, this. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 5

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The soldiers were all exactly alike, excepting one, who had only one leg; he had been left to the last, and then there was not enough of the melted tin to finish him, so they made him to stand firmly on one leg, and this caused him to be very remarkable.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, lid, this · **What happens:** be, except, have, leave, not be, melt · **To what, where:** one, one leg, lid, last

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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 (soldiers, lid, this), 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:pg27200:192:5
# text = The soldiers were all exactly alike, excepting one, who had only one leg; he had been left to the last, and then there was not enough of the melted tin to finish him, so they made him to stand firmly on one leg, and this caused him to be very remarkable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
45	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	nsubj	_	_
52	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	iobj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	cop	_	_
56	very	very	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the soldiers |  |  |  |  | alike, all, exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **except** | gerund | the soldiers *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | one leg |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | lid | the last |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to last=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | the soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the melted tin; enough *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* | lid |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
| 8 | **make** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | lid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **stand** | to-infinitive | lid *not said here* |  |  | one leg |  | firmly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 10 | **cause** | past | this |  | lid |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Patient |
| 11 | **is** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  | remarkable *property* | 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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