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title: But there the steadfast little Tin-soldier lay full length, shoulder… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But there the steadfast little Tin-soldier lay full length, shouldering his gun. Who acts: steadfast little Tin soldier. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 64

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But there the steadfast little Tin-soldier lay full length, shouldering his gun.

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**Who acts:** steadfast little Tin soldier · **What happens:** lie, shoulder · **To what, where:** full length, gun

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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 (steadfast little Tin soldier), 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:pg640:50:64
# text = But there the steadfast little Tin-soldier lay full length, shouldering his gun.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	Tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the steadfast little Tin soldier | full length |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme |
| 2 | **shoulder** | gerund | the steadfast little Tin soldier *not said here* | tunnel's gun |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gun=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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