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title: Each soldier was exactly like the other in shape, except just one, w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each soldier was exactly like the other in shape, except just one, who had been made last when the tin had run short; but there he stood as firmly on his one leg as the others did on two, and he is the one that became famous. Who acts: soldier, boy, others, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book»
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 5

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Each soldier was exactly like the other in shape, except just one, who had been made last when the tin had run short; but there he stood as firmly on his one leg as the others did on two, and he is the one that became famous.

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**Who acts:** soldier, boy, others, one · **What happens:** be, make, run, stand, do, become · **To what, where:** shape, tin, one leg, two, one

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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 (soldier, boy, others, one), 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:pg640:50:5
# text = Each soldier was exactly like the other in shape, except just one, who had been made last when the tin had run short; but there he stood as firmly on his one leg as the others did on two, and he is the one that became famous.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	except	except	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
25	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	parataxis	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | each soldier |  |  | shape |  | exactly, other *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | last *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **run** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tin |  |  |  | short *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 4 | **stand** | past | boy |  |  | boy's one leg; there |  | firmly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 5 | **do** | past | the others |  |  | two |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | boy | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **become** | past | the one |  |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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