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title: They put him on the table, and--no, but what strange things do happe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They put him on the table, and--no, but what strange things do happen in this world!--the Tin-soldier was in the same room in which he had been before! Who acts: soldiers, Tin soldier, fish. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, with its dependency tree and
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 69

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They put him on the table, and--no, but what strange things do happen in this world!--the Tin-soldier was in the same room in which he had been before!

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**Who acts:** soldiers, Tin soldier, fish · **What happens:** put, happen, be · **To what, where:** fish, table, world, same room

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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, Tin soldier, fish), 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:pg640:50:69
# text = They put him on the table, and--no, but what strange things do happen in this world!--the Tin-soldier was in the same room in which he had been before!
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
37	before	before	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | fish |  | the table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on table=Destination |
| 2 | **happen** | present · do-support |  |  |  | this world |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Tin soldier |  |  | the same room |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | fish |  |  | the same room |  | before *property* | 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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