--- title: "You're a pretty fellow," said the soldier, seizing him, and placing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "You're a pretty fellow," said the soldier, seizing him, and placing him on the witch's apron, while he filled his pockets from the chest with as many pieces as they would hold. Who acts: You, soldier, pockets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/28/) [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/) / 28 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 28 "You're a pretty fellow," said the soldier, seizing him, and placing him on the witch's apron, while he filled his pockets from the chest with as many pieces as they would hold. **Who acts:** You, soldier, pockets · **What happens:** be, say, seize, place, fill, hold · **To what, where:** pretty fellow, soldier, apron, pockets, chest · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (You, soldier, pockets), 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:pg27200:193:28 # text = "You're a pretty fellow," said the soldier, seizing him, and placing him on the witch's apron, while he filled his pockets from the chest with as many pieces as they would hold. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 seizing seize VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 apron apron NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 pockets pocket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a pretty fellow | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soldier | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seize** | gerund | the soldier *not said here* | soldier | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **place** | gerund | the soldier *not said here* | soldier | | the witch's apron | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on apron=Destination | | 5 | **fill** | past | soldier | soldier's pockets | | the chest | | with many pieces | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with piece=Instrument | | 6 | **hold** | would | pockets *= pocket* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/29/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/)