The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 45

When he saw all the silver in the chest, he threw away the copper he had taken, and filled his pockets and knapsack with nothing but silver.

Who acts: soldier · What happens: see, throw away, take, fill · To what, where: silver, chest, copper, pockets

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	advcl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 silver	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silver	det
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chest	det
9	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 threw	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 copper	det
15	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 copper	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 filled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 filled	cc
21	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 threw	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 pockets	nmod:poss
23	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 filled	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knapsack	cc
25	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pockets	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 nothing	case
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 filled	obl
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 silver	cc
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	soldier	all silver	the chest		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silver=Stimulus
2	throw away	past	soldier	the copper		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Theme
3	take	past · perfect	soldier	the copper not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copper=Theme
4	fill	past	soldier not said here	soldier's pockets and knapsack		with nothing	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with nothing=Instrument

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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