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title: A great deal darker than in the tunnel, and narrower too, but the ti… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A great deal darker than in the tunnel, and narrower too, but the tin soldier continued firm, and lay at full length shouldering his musket. Who acts: tin soldier, full length. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 59

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A great deal darker than in the tunnel, and narrower too, but the tin soldier continued firm, and lay at full length shouldering his musket.

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**Who acts:** tin soldier, full length · **What happens:** continue, lay, shoulder · **To what, where:** full length, musket

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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, full length), 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:pg27200:192:59
# text = A great deal darker than in the tunnel, and narrower too, but the tin soldier continued firm, and lay at full length shouldering his musket.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	narrower	narrow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	musket	musket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the tin soldier |  |  |  |  | firm *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | the tin soldier *not said here* |  |  | full length |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at length=Destination |
| 3 | **shoulder** | gerund | full length *not said here* | deal's musket |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent musket=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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