Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 107

The king could not refuse this request, so the soldier took his tinder-box, and struck fire, once, twice, thrice,--and there in a moment stood all the dogs;--the one with eyes as big as teacups, the one with eyes as large as mill-wheels, and the third, whose eyes were like towers. "

Who acts: king, soldier, eyes · What happens: not refuse, take, strike, stand, be · To what, where: request, tinder box, fire, dogs

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 (king, soldier, eyes), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 refuse	advmod
5	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 request	det
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 refuse	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 box	nmod:poss
14	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 box	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 tinder	punct
16	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 struck	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 struck	cc
19	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 struck	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 once	punct
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 struck	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thrice	punct
24	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 thrice	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thrice	punct
26	thrice	thrice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 struck	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 thrice	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 stood	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 stood	expl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 moment	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 moment	det
33	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 dogs	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dogs	det
37	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stood	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 refuse	parataxis
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 eyes	case
43	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 one	nmod
44	as	as	ADV	_	45 big	advmod
45	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 one	amod
46	as	as	ADP	_	47 teacups	case
47	teacups	teacup	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 big	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 one	punct
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 one	conj
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 eyes	case
52	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 one	nmod
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 large	advmod
54	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 one	amod
55	as	as	ADP	_	58 wheels	case
56	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 wheels	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 mill	punct
58	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 large	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 third	punct
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 third	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 third	det
62	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	54 large	conj
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 towers	punct
64	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	65 eyes	nmod:poss
65	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 towers	nsubj
66	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 towers	cop
67	like	like	ADP	_	68 towers	case
68	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 third	obl
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	62 third	punct
70	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not refuse	could	the king	this request				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme
2	take	past	the soldier	request's tinder box				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	strike	past	the soldier not said here	fire			once property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
4	stand	past	the soldier not said here	all dogs	there	moment		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
5	is	past	towers's eyes				like towers	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: «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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