The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 84

But all at once it flashed across him that there was a little end of tinder in the tinder-box, which he had taken from the hollow tree into which the Witch had helped him down.

Who acts: last, little end, Witch · What happens: flash, be, take, help down · To what, where: tinder box, hollow tree, soldier

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 (last, little end, Witch), 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	_	6 flashed	cc
2	all	all	ADV	_	6 flashed	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 flashed	obl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flashed	nsubj
6	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	across	across	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flashed	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 was	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flashed	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 end	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 end	amod
14	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 tinder	case
16	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 end	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 box	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 box	det
19	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 box	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 tinder	punct
21	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tinder	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taken	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 taken	nsubj:pass
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taken	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 box	acl:relcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tree	det
29	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tree	amod
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obl
31	into	into	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 helped	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Witch	det
34	Witch	Witch	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 helped	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 helped	aux
36	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 tree	acl:relcl
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 helped	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	36 helped	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	flash	past	last				across soldier; all property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	be	past	a little end of tinder in the tinder box			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past · perfect · passive		the tinder box		the hollow tree		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from tree=Initial_Location
4	help down	past · perfect	the Witch		soldier	the hollow tree		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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