Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 52

Then she took both their hands, and promised that if ever she should pass through the town, she would call and pay them a visit.

Who acts: girl · What happens: take, promise, pass, call, pay · To what, where: hands, town, Snip · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hands	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 promised	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 promised	cc
9	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 pass	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 ever	mark
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 pass	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pass	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pass	aux
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 promised	ccomp
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pass	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 call	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 call	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 call	aux
22	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pay	cc
24	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 call	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pay	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 visit	det
27	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pay	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	girl	Snip's hands		then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past	girl not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	should	girl		the town	ever	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=Location
4	call	would	girl				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pay	infinitive	girl not said here	Snip			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset

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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