Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 64
The soldier very soon discovered after this the value of the tinder-box.
What happens: discover, value · To what, where: soldier, tinder box
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 soon | advmod |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 discovered | advmod |
| 5 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 discovered | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 value | det |
| 9 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discovered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 box | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 box | det |
| 12 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 box | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tinder | punct |
| 14 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 value | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | participle · passive | the soldier | after this | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | value | the tinder box | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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