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title: The table on which the tin soldiers stood, was covered with other pl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The table on which the tin soldiers stood, was covered with other playthings, but the most attractive to the eye was a pretty little paper castle. Who acts: tin soldiers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 6

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The table on which the tin soldiers stood, was covered with other playthings, but the most attractive to the eye was a pretty little paper castle.

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**Who acts:** tin soldiers · **What happens:** stand, cover, be · **To what, where:** table, attractive pretty little paper castle

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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 soldiers), 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:pg27200:192:6
# text = The table on which the tin soldiers stood, was covered with other playthings, but the most attractive to the eye was a pretty little paper castle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the tin soldiers |  |  | the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the table |  |  |  | with other playthings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with plaything=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a attractive pretty little paper castle |  |  |  |  | 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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