--- title: He now stood up to his neck in water, while deeper and deeper sank t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He now stood up to his neck in water, while deeper and deeper sank the boat, and the paper became soft and loose with the wet, till at last the water closed over the soldier's head. Who acts: arch, deeper, paper. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/54/) [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/) / 54 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 54 He now stood up to his neck in water, while deeper and deeper sank the boat, and the paper became soft and loose with the wet, till at last the water closed over the soldier's head. **Who acts:** arch, deeper, paper · **What happens:** stand up, sink, become, close · **To what, where:** boat, last water, head 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 (arch, deeper, paper), 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:pg27200:192:54 # text = He now stood up to his neck in water, while deeper and deeper sank the boat, and the paper became soft and loose with the wet, till at last the water closed over the soldier's head. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 till till ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 xcomp _ _ 35 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | past | arch | | | | now | to arch's neck in water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sink** | past | deeper | the boat | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient | | 3 | **become** | past | the paper | the last water | | | | soft *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **close** | participle | | the last water *not said here* | | the soldier's head | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/55/) - ↑ back to [The Brave Tin Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/192/)