Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 36
So the soldier now threw away all the silver money he had taken, and filled his pockets and his knapsack with gold instead; and not only his pockets and his knapsack, but even his cap and boots, so that he could scarcely walk.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: throw away, take, fill, walk · To what, where: silver money, 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 threw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldier | det |
| 3 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 threw | advmod |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 threw | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 money | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 money | det |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 money | compound |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taken | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 threw | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 filled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 filled | cc |
| 16 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 threw | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 filled | obj | |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knapsack | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pockets | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knapsack | nmod |
| 24 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 16 filled | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 pockets | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pockets | cc |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 pockets | advmod |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 pockets | advmod |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 30 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 threw | obl | |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 knapsack | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 33 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pockets | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cap | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 cap | cc |
| 36 | even | even | ADV | _ | 38 cap | advmod |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 cap | nmod:poss |
| 38 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pockets | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 boots | cc |
| 40 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cap | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 walk | punct |
| 42 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 walk | mark |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 so | fixed |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 walk | nsubj |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 walk | aux |
| 46 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 47 walk | advmod |
| 47 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 threw | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw away | past | the soldier | all silver money | now | soldier's pockets soldier's cap and boots and soldier's knapsack obl; away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | soldier | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fill | past | the soldier not said here | soldier's pockets and soldier's knapsack with gold | instead property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient | |||
| 4 | walk | could | soldier | scarcely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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