Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 28

"You're a pretty fellow," said the soldier, seizing him, and placing him on the witch's apron, while he filled his pockets from the chest with as many pieces as they would hold.

Who acts: You, soldier, pockets · What happens: be, say, seize, place, fill, hold · To what, where: pretty fellow, soldier, apron, pockets, chest · 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 (You, soldier, pockets), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fellow	nsubj
3	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fellow	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 soldier	det
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seizing	punct
13	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seizing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 placing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 placing	cc
17	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 seizing	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 placing	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	23 apron	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 witch	det
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 apron	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 witch	case
23	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 placing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 filled	punct
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 filled	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 filled	nsubj
27	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pockets	nmod:poss
29	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 filled	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 chest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 chest	det
32	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 filled	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 pieces	case
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 many	advmod
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 pieces	amod
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 filled	obl
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 hold	mark
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hold	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 hold	aux
40	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 filled	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	You	a pretty fellow			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the soldier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	seize	gerund	the soldier not said here	soldier			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	place	gerund	the soldier not said here	soldier	the witch's apron		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on apron=Destination
5	fill	past	soldier	soldier's pockets	the chest	with many pieces	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with piece=Instrument
6	hold	would	pockets = pocket				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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