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title: The Tin-soldier was standing up to his neck in water, and deeper and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tin-soldier was standing up to his neck in water, and deeper and deeper sank the boat, and softer and softer grew the paper; now the water was over his head. Who acts: Tin soldier, deeper, softer, water. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its de
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 58

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The Tin-soldier was standing up to his neck in water, and deeper and deeper sank the boat, and softer and softer grew the paper; now the water was over his head.

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**Who acts:** Tin soldier, deeper, softer, water · **What happens:** stand up, sink, grow, be · **To what, where:** boat, paper, head

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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 (Tin soldier, deeper, softer, water), 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:pg640:50:58
# text = The Tin-soldier was standing up to his neck in water, and deeper and deeper sank the boat, and softer and softer grew the paper; now the water was over his head.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
18	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	conj	_	_
26	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	over	over	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past · progressive | the Tin soldier |  |  |  |  | to tunnel's neck in water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sink** | past | deeper | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | softer | the paper |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paper=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the water |  |  | tunnel's head | now |  | 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:** «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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