Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 61
"Hallo," said the soldier; "well this is a pleasant tinderbox, if it brings me all I wish for."
Who acts: Hallo, this, tinderbox · What happens: say, be, bring, wish · To what, where: soldier, pleasant tinderbox, Hallo · 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 (Hallo, this, tinderbox), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tinderbox | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 tinderbox | punct |
| 10 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 15 tinderbox | discourse |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 tinderbox | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tinderbox | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tinderbox | det |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tinderbox | amod |
| 15 | tinderbox | tinderbox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brings | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 brings | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brings | nsubj |
| 19 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 brings | iobj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 me | det |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 wish | nsubj |
| 23 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brings | parataxis |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 wish | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 brings | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hallo | the soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | a pleasant tinderbox | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | tinderbox | Hallo | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | Hallo | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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