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title: As soon as the rope was tied, the soldier climbed up the tree, and l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the rope was tied, the soldier climbed up the tree, and let himself down through the hollow to the ground beneath; and here he found, as the witch had told him, a large hall, in which many hundred lamps were all burning. Who acts: soldier, many hundred lamps. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 25

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As soon as the rope was tied, the soldier climbed up the tree, and let himself down through the hollow to the ground beneath; and here he found, as the witch had told him, a large hall, in which many hundred lamps were all burning.

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**Who acts:** soldier, many hundred lamps · **What happens:** tie, climb up, let down, find, tell, burn · **To what, where:** rope, tree, soldier, hollow, large hall, witch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (soldier, many hundred lamps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:193:25
# text = As soon as the rope was tied, the soldier climbed up the tree, and let himself down through the hollow to the ground beneath; and here he found, as the witch had told him, a large hall, in which many hundred lamps were all burning.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
46	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
47	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	all	all	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | past · passive |  | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **climb up** | past | the soldier | the tree |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **let down** | infinitive | the soldier *not said here* | soldier |  | the hollow to the ground |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | soldier | a large hall |  | here |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the witch | soldier |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 6 | **burn** | past · progressive | many hundred lamps |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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.

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**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.

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