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title: The soldier had now plenty of money; he returned to his elegant room… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldier had now plenty of money; he returned to his elegant rooms, and reappeared in his fine clothes, so that his friends knew him again directly, and made as much of him as before. Who acts: soldier, friends. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 66

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The soldier had now plenty of money; he returned to his elegant rooms, and reappeared in his fine clothes, so that his friends knew him again directly, and made as much of him as before.

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**Who acts:** soldier, friends · **What happens:** have, return, reappear, know, make · **To what, where:** plenty, fine clothes, soldier

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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, friends), 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:pg27200:193:66
# text = The soldier had now plenty of money; he returned to his elegant rooms, and reappeared in his fine clothes, so that his friends knew him again directly, and made as much of him as before.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	reappeared	reappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	before	before	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the soldier | plenty of money |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 2 | **return** | past | soldier |  |  |  |  | to soldier's elegant rooms *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result |
| 3 | **reappear** | past | soldier *not said here* |  |  | soldier's fine clothes |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in clothes=Location |
| 4 | **know** | past | soldier's friends | soldier |  |  | again | directly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | past | the soldier *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of soldier; before *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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