Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 31

But when he saw what a quantity of silver money it contained, he very quickly threw away all the coppers he had taken, and filled his pockets and his knapsack with nothing but silver.

Who acts: soldier, quantity · What happens: see, contain, throw away, take, fill · To what, where: coppers, pockets

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, quantity), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 saw	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 quantity	det
7	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 contained	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 money	case
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 money	compound
10	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quantity	nmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 contained	nsubj
12	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	nsubj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 quickly	advmod
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 threw	advmod
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 threw	advmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 coppers	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 coppers	det
21	coppers	copper	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 threw	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 taken	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 taken	aux
24	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 coppers	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 filled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 filled	cc
27	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	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	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knapsack	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 knapsack	nmod:poss
32	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pockets	conj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 nothing	case
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 knapsack	nmod
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 silver	cc
36	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 nothing	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	soldier			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	contain	past	a quantity of silver money			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	throw away	past	soldier	all coppers	away, quickly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Theme
4	take	past · perfect	soldier	all coppers not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Theme
5	fill	past	soldier not said here	soldier's pockets and soldier's knapsack with nothing		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient

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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