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title: Then he closed the lid, seated the dog upon it again, and walked int… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he closed the lid, seated the dog upon it again, and walked into another chamber, And, sure enough, there sat the dog with eyes as big as mill-wheels. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 29

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Then he closed the lid, seated the dog upon it again, and walked into another chamber, And, sure enough, there sat the dog with eyes as big as mill-wheels.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** close, seat, walk, sit · **To what, where:** lid, dog, chamber

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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), 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:pg27200:193:29
# text = Then he closed the lid, seated the dog upon it again, and walked into another chamber, And, sure enough, there sat the dog with eyes as big as mill-wheels.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past | soldier | the lid |  |  | then |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Patient |
| 2 | **seat** | past | soldier *not said here* | the dog |  |  | again | upon lid | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Value |
| 3 | **walk** | past | soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into another chamber *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into chamber=Result |
| 4 | **sit** | past | soldier *not said here* | the dog |  | there |  | with eyes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |

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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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