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title: When it was morning, and the children had got up, the Tin-soldier wa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was morning, and the children had got up, the Tin-soldier was put in the window; and whether it was the wind or the little black imp, I don’t know, but all at once the window flew open and out fell the little Tin-soldier, head over heels, from the third-storey window! Who acts: imp, children
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 27

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When it was morning, and the children had got up, the Tin-soldier was put in the window; and whether it was the wind or the little black imp, I don’t know, but all at once the window flew open and out fell the little Tin-soldier, head over heels, from the third-storey window!

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**Who acts:** imp, children, I, all · **What happens:** be, get up, put, not know, fly, fall · **To what, where:** morning, Tin soldier, window, wind, little Tin soldier, storey window

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast 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 (imp, children, I, all), 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:pg640:50:27
# text = When it was morning, and the children had got up, the Tin-soldier was put in the window; and whether it was the wind or the little black imp, I don’t know, but all at once the window flew open and out fell the little Tin-soldier, head over heels, from the third-storey window!
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	advcl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	imp	imp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	nsubj	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
46	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
47	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	out	out	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
53	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	_
58	over	over	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
61	from	from	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
63	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	65	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	storey	storey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	compound	_	_
66	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | imp | morning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get up** | past · perfect | the children | morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morning=Stimulus |
| 3 | **put** | past · passive |  | the Tin soldier |  | the window |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in window=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | imp | the wind or the little black imp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **fly** | past | all |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fall** | past | all *not said here* | the little Tin soldier |  | the storey window |  | out *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient soldier=Extent from window=Initial\_State |

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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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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