Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 66
The soldier had now plenty of money; he returned to his elegant rooms, and reappeared in his fine clothes, so that his friends knew him again directly, and made as much of him as before.
Who acts: soldier, friends · What happens: have, return, reappear, know, make · To what, where: plenty, fine clothes, soldier
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, friends), 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 | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 had | advmod |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 money | case |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 rooms | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rooms | amod |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reappeared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reappeared | cc |
| 17 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 clothes | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clothes | amod |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 reappeared | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 27 knew | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friends | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reappeared | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knew | obj |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 knew | advmod |
| 30 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 27 knew | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 him | amod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | obl |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | _ | 39 before | advmod |
| 39 | before | before | ADV | _ | 33 made | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the soldier | plenty of money | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | |||
| 2 | return | past | soldier | to soldier's elegant rooms result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result | ||||
| 3 | reappear | past | soldier not said here | soldier's fine clothes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location | ||||
| 4 | know | past | soldier's friends | soldier | again | directly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | make | past | the soldier not said here | of soldier; before property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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