--- title: She took up the soldier between her finger and thumb, and carried hi… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She took up the soldier between her finger and thumb, and carried him into the room, where everyone wanted to see the hero who had been found inside a fish; but the Tin-soldier was not at all proud. Who acts: cook, everyone, Tin soldier. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Stea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/68/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Steadfast Tin-soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/) / 68 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 68 She took up the soldier between her finger and thumb, and carried him into the room, where everyone wanted to see the hero who had been found inside a fish; but the Tin-soldier was not at all proud. **Who acts:** cook, everyone, Tin soldier · **What happens:** take up, carry, want, see, find, not be · **To what, where:** soldier, fish, room, hero 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 (cook, everyone, Tin soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:50:68 # text = She took up the soldier between her finger and thumb, and carried him into the room, where everyone wanted to see the hero who had been found inside a fish; but the Tin-soldier was not at all proud. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 between between ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 thumb thumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 inside inside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 34 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 36 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** | past | cook | the soldier | | | | between cook's finger and thumb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | past | | fish | | the room | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **want** | past | everyone | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* | the hero | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hero=Stimulus | | 5 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | | the hero | | | | inside a fish | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | the Tin soldier | | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/69/) - ↑ back to [The Steadfast Tin-soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/50/)