Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 25

As soon as the rope was tied, the soldier climbed up the tree, and let himself down through the hollow to the ground beneath; and here he found, as the witch had told him, a large hall, in which many hundred lamps were all burning.

Who acts: soldier, many hundred lamps · What happens: tie, climb up, let down, find, tell, burn · To what, where: rope, tree, soldier, hollow, large hall, witch · 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, many hundred lamps), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 climbed	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 tied	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tied	aux:pass
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 soon	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	nsubj
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 climbed	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 let	cc
17	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 climbed	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 let	obj
19	down	down	ADP	_	17 let	compound:prt
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 hollow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hollow	det
22	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 let	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hollow	nmod
26	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	25 ground	advmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 here	cc
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 found	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 climbed	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 told	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 told	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 witch	det
35	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 told	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 told	aux
37	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 found	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	iobj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hall	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 hall	det
41	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hall	amod
42	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 burning	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 which	case
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 burning	obl
46	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lamps	amod
47	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 lamps	nummod
48	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 burning	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 burning	aux
50	all	all	ADV	_	51 burning	advmod
51	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 found	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tie	past · passive		the rope				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	climb up	past	the soldier	the tree			soon property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	let down	infinitive	the soldier not said here	soldier		the hollow to the ground		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	find	past	soldier	a large hall		here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the witch	soldier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
6	burn	past · progressive	many hundred lamps				all property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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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