The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 85

He found the box with the tinder in it; but just as he was kindling a light, and had struck a spark out of the tinder-box, the door burst open, and the dog with eyes as large as saucers, which he had seen down in the tree, stood before him and said:

Who acts: soldier, door · What happens: find, kindle, strike, burst, see down, stand · To what, where: box, light, spark, tinder box, saucers, tree · 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, door), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tinder	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tinder	det
7	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tinder	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 kindling	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 kindling	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	16 kindling	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 kindling	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kindling	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 kindling	aux
16	kindling	kindle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kindling	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 struck	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 struck	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 struck	aux
22	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 found	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 spark	det
24	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obj
25	out	out	ADP	_	30 box	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 box	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 box	det
28	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 box	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 tinder	punct
30	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 struck	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 burst	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 door	det
33	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burst	nsubj
34	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 box	acl:relcl
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 burst	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 large	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 large	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 dog	det
39	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 large	nsubj
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 eyes	case
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 dog	nmod
42	as	as	ADV	_	43 large	advmod
43	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 struck	conj
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 saucers	case
45	saucers	saucer	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 large	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 seen	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 seen	nsubj:pass
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 seen	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 seen	aux
50	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 saucers	acl
51	down	down	ADP	_	50 seen	compound:prt
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 tree	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 tree	det
54	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 seen	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 stood	punct
56	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
57	before	before	ADP	_	58 him	case
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 stood	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 said	cc
60	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
61	:	:	PUNCT	_	60 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	soldier	the box			with the tinder in tinder	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic
2	kindle	past · progressive	soldier	a light				vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition light=Patient
3	strike	past · perfect	soldier not said here	a spark	the tinder box			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Patient
4	burst	past	the door	the tinder box not said here			open property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
5	see down	past · perfect · passive		saucers	the tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	stand	past	soldier not said here			before soldier		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
7	say speech: assert	past	soldier not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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