The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 37

Then the Soldier climbed up the tree, let himself down through the hole, and found himself standing, as the Witch had said, underground in the large hall, where the three hundred lamps were burning.

Who acts: Soldier, hundred lamps · What happens: climb up, let down, find, stand, say, burn · To what, where: tree, soldier, hole, Witch, large hall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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, hundred lamps), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 climbed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Soldier	det
3	Soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 let	punct
9	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 let	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 let	compound:prt
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 hole	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hole	det
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 let	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 found	cc
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 found	obj
19	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 found	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Witch	det
23	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 found	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 underground	punct
27	underground	underground	ADV	_	25 said	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 hall	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hall	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hall	amod
31	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 burning	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 burning	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 lamps	det
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 hundred	compound
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 lamps	nummod
37	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 burning	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 burning	aux
39	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 hall	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	the Soldier	the tree		then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	let down	infinitive	the Soldier not said here	soldier	the hole			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	find	past	the Soldier not said here	soldier				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
4	stand	gerund	soldier not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the Witch	the large hall		underground property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in hall=Manner
6	burn	past · progressive	the hundred lamps					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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