Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 113

So they placed the soldier in the king's carriage, and the three dogs ran on in front and cried "Hurrah!" and the little boys whistled through their fingers, and the soldiers presented arms.

Who acts: people, three dogs, little boys, soldiers · What happens: place, run on, cry, whistle, present · To what, where: soldier, carriage, front, Hurrah, fingers, arms

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 (people, three dogs, little boys, soldiers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 placed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 carriage	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carriage	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dogs	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 dogs	nummod
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ran	nsubj
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 ran	compound:prt
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cried	cc
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Hurrah	punct
23	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cried	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Hurrah	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Hurrah	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 whistled	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boys	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 boys	amod
29	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 whistled	nsubj
30	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cried	conj
31	through	through	ADP	_	33 fingers	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fingers	nmod:poss
33	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 whistled	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 presented	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 presented	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 soldiers	det
37	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 presented	nsubj
38	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
39	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 presented	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	place	past	people	the soldier	the king's carriage	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in carriage=Destination
2	run on	past	the three dogs		front	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
3	cry speech: express	past	people not said here	Hurrah		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic
4	whistle	past	the little boys		people's fingers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through finger=Location
5	present	past	the soldiers	arms		vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

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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