Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 100
There will be nothing to see till I come; but if you will run to the house where I have been living, and bring me my tinder-box, you shall have four shillings, but you must put your best foot foremost."
Who acts: nothing, I, you · What happens: be, see, come, run, live, bring · To what, where: tinder box, me, four shillings, best foot
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, I, you), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 be | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 run | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 run | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 run | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 be | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 run | obl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 living | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 living | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 living | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 living | aux |
| 23 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 house | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 run | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 box | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 box | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 tinder | punct |
| 31 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 have | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 have | aux |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bring | parataxis |
| 36 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 shillings | nummod |
| 37 | shillings | shilling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 have | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 put | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 put | cc |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 put | nsubj |
| 41 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 put | aux |
| 42 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 have | conj |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 foot | nmod:poss |
| 44 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 foot | amod |
| 45 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 put | obj |
| 46 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 put | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | future | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | run a condition, not said to happen | future | you | to the house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 5 | live | present · perfect · progressive | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | my tinder box | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination box=Theme | |||
| 7 | have | shall | you | four shillings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Patient | ||||
| 8 | put | must | you | your best foot | foremost property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent foot=Goal |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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