Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 105

The soldier already stood on the ladder; but as they were about to place the rope around his neck, he said that an innocent request was often granted to a poor criminal before he suffered death.

Who acts: soldier, thrones · What happens: stand, be, say, grant, suffer · To what, where: ladder, place, innocent request, poor criminal, death · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (soldier, thrones), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 stood	advmod
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ladder	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ladder	det
7	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 place	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 place	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 place	cop
13	about	about	ADV	_	15 place	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 place	mark
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rope	det
17	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 place	nmod
18	around	around	ADP	_	20 neck	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 neck	nmod:poss
20	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rope	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 place	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 granted	mark
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 request	det
26	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 request	amod
27	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 granted	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 granted	aux:pass
29	often	often	ADV	_	30 granted	advmod
30	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 said	ccomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 criminal	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 criminal	det
33	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 criminal	amod
34	criminal	criminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 granted	obl
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 suffered	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 suffered	nsubj
37	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 granted	advcl
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 suffered	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the soldier		the ladder		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ladder=Location
2	is a	past	thrones = throne	place		the rope around soldier's neck nmod; about property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	grant	past · passive		a innocent request		to a poor criminal goal; often property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to criminal=Goal
5	suffer	past	soldier	death			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus

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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