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title: So they made a little boat out of newspaper, put the Tin-soldier in… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they made a little boat out of newspaper, put the Tin-soldier in it, and made him sail up and down the gutter; both the boys ran along beside him, clapping their hands. Who acts: soldiers, boy, boys. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its depende
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 37

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So they made a little boat out of newspaper, put the Tin-soldier in it, and made him sail up and down the gutter; both the boys ran along beside him, clapping their hands.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, boy, boys · **What happens:** make, put, sail up, run along, clap · **To what, where:** little boat, newspaper, Tin soldier, boat, boy, hands

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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 (soldiers, boy, boys), 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:pg640:50:37
# text = So they made a little boat out of newspaper, put the Tin-soldier in it, and made him sail up and down the gutter; both the boys ran along beside him, clapping their hands.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gutter	gutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc:preconj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	along	along	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	clapping	clap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | a little boat |  | newspaper |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | the Tin soldier |  | boat |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in it=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sail up** | infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **run along** | past | the boys |  |  |  |  | beside canary; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **clap** | gerund | the boys *not said here* | soldiers's hands |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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:** «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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