Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 29

Then he closed the lid, seated the dog upon it again, and walked into another chamber, And, sure enough, there sat the dog with eyes as big as mill-wheels.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: close, seat, walk, sit · To what, where: lid, dog, chamber

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 closed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 closed	nsubj
3	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lid	det
5	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seated	punct
7	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seated	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seated	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	7 seated	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 walked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 walked	cc
15	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 chamber	case
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 chamber	det
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
20	And	and	CCONJ	_	22 sure	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 walked	conj
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 sure	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 sat	expl
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dog	det
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 eyes	case
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sat	obl
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 big	advmod
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sat	parataxis
33	as	as	ADP	_	36 wheels	case
34	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wheels	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 mill	punct
36	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 big	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past	soldier	the lid		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient
2	seat	past	soldier not said here	the dog		again	upon lid	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Value
3	walk	past	soldier not said here				into another chamber result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into chamber=Result
4	sit	past	soldier not said here	the dog	there		with eyes	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=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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