Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 8

He wanted to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the clerk could only afford ordinary grease; and upon that point they split.

Who acts: Such, boots, clerk · What happens: want, have, clean, afford, split · To what, where: ordinary grease

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, boots, clerk), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 boots	nmod:poss
6	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cleaned	nsubj
7	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 blacking	case
9	patent	patent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blacking	compound
10	blacking	blacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleaned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 afford	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 afford	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clerk	det
14	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afford	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 afford	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 afford	advmod
17	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cleaned	advcl
18	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grease	amod
19	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afford	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 split	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 split	cc
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 point	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 point	det
24	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 split	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 split	nsubj
26	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	Such			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	Such not said here			tree rules
3	clean	past	Such's boots		with patent blacking	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blacking=Instrument
4	afford	could	the clerk	ordinary grease		tree rules
5	split	past	boots = boot		upon that point	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

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