Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 40
So he went back and fetched the tinderbox, and then the witch drew him up out of the tree, and he stood again in the high road, with his pockets, his knapsack, his cap, and his boots full of gold.
Who acts: soldier, witch · What happens: go back, fetch, draw up, stand · To what, where: boots, tinderbox, soldier, tree, high road
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, witch), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fetched | cc |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tinderbox | det |
| 8 | tinderbox | tinderbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetched | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drew | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 drew | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drew | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 drew | compound:prt |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drew | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stood | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 stood | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 road | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 28 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 road | amod |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stood | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pockets | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 pockets | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 33 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stood | obl | |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 knapsack | punct |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 36 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pockets | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cap | punct |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 cap | nmod:poss |
| 39 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 knapsack | appos |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 boots | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 boots | cc |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 boots | nmod:poss |
| 43 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 44 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 boots | amod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 gold | case |
| 46 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 full | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | soldier | soldier's boots | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fetch | past | soldier not said here | the tinderbox | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tinderbox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw up | past | the witch | soldier | the tree | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out tree=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | stand | past | soldier | the high road | again | with soldier's pockets and soldier's knapsack | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in road=Location |
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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