--- title: So they placed the soldier in the king's carriage, and the three dog… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: So they placed the soldier in the king's carriage, and the three dogs ran on in front and cried "Hurrah!" and the little boys whistled through their fingers, and the soldiers presented arms. Who acts: people, three dogs, little boys, soldiers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/113/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/) / 113 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 113 So they placed the soldier in the king's carriage, and the three dogs ran on in front and cried "Hurrah!" and the little boys whistled through their fingers, and the soldiers presented arms. **Who acts:** people, three dogs, little boys, soldiers · **What happens:** place, run on, cry, whistle, present · **To what, where:** soldier, carriage, front, Hurrah, fingers, arms This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 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 (people, three dogs, little boys, soldiers), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:193:113 # text = So they placed the soldier in the king's carriage, and the three dogs ran on in front and cried "Hurrah!" and the little boys whistled through their fingers, and the soldiers presented arms. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 carriage carriage NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 on on ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Hurrah Hurrah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 whistled whistle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 38 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | past | people | the soldier | | the king's carriage | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme in carriage=Destination | | 2 | **run on** | past | the three dogs | | | front | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | people *not said here* | Hurrah | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | | 4 | **whistle** | past | the little boys | | | people's fingers | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through finger=Location | | 5 | **present** | past | the soldiers | arms | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/114/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/)