--- title: Then the Soldier climbed up the tree, let himself down through the h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Soldier climbed up the tree, let himself down through the hole, and found himself standing, as the Witch had said, underground in the large hall, where the three hundred lamps were burning. Who acts: Soldier, hundred lamps. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/37/) [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/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/) / 37 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 37 Then the Soldier climbed up the tree, let himself down through the hole, and found himself standing, as the Witch had said, underground in the large hall, where the three hundred lamps were burning. **Who acts:** Soldier, hundred lamps · **What happens:** climb up, let down, find, stand, say, burn · **To what, where:** tree, soldier, hole, Witch, large hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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, hundred lamps), 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:pg640:46:37 # text = Then the Soldier climbed up the tree, let himself down through the hole, and found himself standing, as the Witch had said, underground in the large hall, where the three hundred lamps were burning. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 down down ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obj _ _ 19 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 underground underground ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 39 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 compound _ _ 36 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 lamps lamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb up** | past | the Soldier | the tree | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 2 | **let down** | infinitive | the Soldier *not said here* | soldier | | the hole | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | the Soldier *not said here* | soldier | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **stand** | gerund | soldier *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the Witch | | the large hall | | underground *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in hall=Manner | | 6 | **burn** | past · progressive | the hundred lamps | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/38/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/)