Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 34

But after looking at him more closely, he thought he had been civil enough, so he placed him on the floor, and opened the chest.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: look, think, be, place, open · To what, where: dog, floor, 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	3 looking	mark
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 thought	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 looking	obl
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 closely	advmod
7	closely	closely	ADV	_	3 looking	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thought	nsubj
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 civil	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 civil	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 civil	cop
14	civil	civil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thought	ccomp
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 civil	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 placed	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 placed	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 placed	nsubj
19	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 placed	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 opened	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 opened	cc
26	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 chest	det
28	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 opened	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	soldier not said here			at soldier; closely property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	soldier				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past · perfect	soldier			civil, enough property	tree rules
4	place	past	soldier	dog	the floor		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on floor=Destination
5	open	past	soldier not said here	the chest			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=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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