--- title: In the morning he could see through the iron grating of the little w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the morning he could see through the iron grating of the little window how the people were hastening out of the town to see him hanged; he heard the drums beating, and saw the soldiers marching. Who acts: soldier, people, drums, soldiers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/97/) [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/) / 97 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 97 In the morning he could see through the iron grating of the little window how the people were hastening out of the town to see him hanged; he heard the drums beating, and saw the soldiers marching. **Who acts:** soldier, people, drums, soldiers · **What happens:** see, hasten, hange, hear, beat, march · **To what, where:** iron grating, town, soldier, drums, soldiers 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, people, drums, soldiers), 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:pg27200:193:97 # text = In the morning he could see through the iron grating of the little window how the people were hastening out of the town to see him hanged; he heard the drums beating, and saw the soldiers marching. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 grating grating NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 15 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 hastening hasten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 hanged hange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 drums drum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 beating beat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 marching march VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | could | soldier | | | the iron grating of the little window | morning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **hasten** | past · progressive | the people | | | the town | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out town=Trajectory | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | soldier | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hange** | participle | soldier *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hear** | past | soldier | the drums | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **beat** | gerund | the drums *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** | past | soldier *not said here* | the soldiers | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer soldier=Stimulus | | 8 | **march** | gerund | the soldiers *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/98/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/193/)