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title: He was really rich now; so he replaced the dog on the chest, closed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was really rich now; so he replaced the dog on the chest, closed the door, and called up through the tree, "Now pull me out, you old witch." Who acts: soldier, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 37

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He was really rich now; so he replaced the dog on the chest, closed the door, and called up through the tree, "Now pull me out, you old witch."

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**Who acts:** soldier, you · **What happens:** be, replace, close, call up, pull out, witch · **To what, where:** dog, chest, door, tree, soldier · **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, you), 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:pg27200:193:37
# text = He was really rich now; so he replaced the dog on the chest, closed the door, and called up through the tree, "Now pull me out, you old witch."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | soldier |  |  |  | now | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **replace** | past | soldier | the dog |  | the chest |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **close** | participle | soldier *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **call up** *speech: assert* | participle | soldier *not said here* |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pull out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | soldier |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **witch** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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