Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 47

It was a very nice town, and he put up at the best inn, and ordered a dinner of all his favorite dishes, for now he was rich and had plenty of money.

Who acts: tinderbox, soldier · What happens: be, put up, order, have · To what, where: nice town, best inn, dinner, plenty

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 (tinderbox, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 town	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 nice	advmod
5	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 inn	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 inn	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 inn	amod
15	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ordered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ordered	cc
18	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dinner	det
20	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ordered	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 dishes	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 dishes	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dishes	nmod:poss
24	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dishes	amod
25	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dinner	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rich	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 rich	mark
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 rich	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rich	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	cop
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ordered	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	conj
34	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 money	case
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 plenty	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 town	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	tinderbox	a nice town				tree rules
2	put up	past	soldier		the best inn			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination
3	order	past		a dinner of soldier's favorite dishes				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme
4	is	past	soldier			now	rich property	tree rules
5	have	past	soldier not said here	plenty of money				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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