Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 100

But the first thing he did as soon as he got home, was to have a large blister put on his chest and back to draw out his madness.

Who acts: thing, first thing · What happens: do, get, have, put, draw out · To what, where: first thing, large blister, chest, madness

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, first thing), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	nsubj:outer
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thing	acl:relcl
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 soon	advmod
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 did	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 got	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 soon	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 have	mark
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 blister	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blister	amod
19	blister	blister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
20	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 blister	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 chest	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 chest	nmod:poss
23	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 put	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 back	cc
25	back	back	ADV	_	20 put	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 draw	mark
27	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 put	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 draw	compound:prt
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 madness	nmod:poss
30	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 draw	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	thing	the first thing not said here		soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	get	past	thing			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	the first thing	a large blister			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blister=Patient
4	put	participle		a large blister not said here	thing's chest		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on chest=Destination
5	draw out	to-infinitive		thing's madness			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madness=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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