The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 49

But when he had examined him more closely, he thought to himself: ‘Now then, I’ve had enough of this!’ and put him down on the floor, and opened the chest.

Who acts: soldier, I · What happens: examine, think, have, put down, open · To what, where: Copenhagen, soldier, enough, floor, chest

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, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 examined	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 examined	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 examined	aux
5	examined	examine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thought	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 examined	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 closely	advmod
8	closely	closely	ADV	_	5 examined	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 examined	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thought	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 then	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 then	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 then	advmod
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 ’ve	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ’ve	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 ’ve	nsubj
20	’ve	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	parataxis
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ’ve	ccomp
22	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 had	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 this	case
24	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 enough	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 enough	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 ’ve	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 ’ve	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	down	down	ADP	_	28 put	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 opened	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 opened	cc
36	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 chest	det
38	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 opened	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	examine	past · perfect	soldier	Copenhagen				closely property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	soldier		soldier				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	I				then		tree rules
4	have	past	I not said here	enough					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient
5	put down	infinitive	I not said here	soldier		the floor			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on floor=Destination
6	open	past	soldier not said here	the chest					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=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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