Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 37

He was really rich now; so he replaced the dog on the chest, closed the door, and called up through the tree, "Now pull me out, you old witch."

Who acts: soldier, you · What happens: be, replace, close, call up, pull out, witch · To what, where: dog, chest, door, tree, soldier · 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, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rich	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 replaced	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 replaced	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replaced	nsubj
9	replaced	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replaced	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 chest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chest	det
14	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replaced	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 closed	punct
16	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 replaced	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 door	det
18	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 closed	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 called	cc
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rich	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 called	compound:prt
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 tree	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pull	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 pull	punct
28	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 pull	advmod
29	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 pull	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 pull	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 witch	punct
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 witch	nsubj
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 witch	amod
35	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pull	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	soldier			now	rich property	tree rules
2	replace	past	soldier	the dog	the chest			vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme
3	close	participle	soldier not said here	the door				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	call up speech: assert	participle	soldier not said here		the tree			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pull out in a quote	infinitive		soldier		now		tree rules
6	witch in a quote		you					tree rules

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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