Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 45

At last she took me up in her delicate hand, and then I told her what had brought me out into the world, and she promised me that perhaps on that very evening she should be able to obtain for me one of the two treasures for which I was seeking.

Who acts: dryad, I · What happens: take up, tell, bring out, promise, be, obtain · To what, where: me, last, dryad, world, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 took	iobj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 hand	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
9	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hand	amod
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 told	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 brought	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	aux
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 told	ccomp
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	19 brought	compound:prt
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 world	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 promised	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 promised	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 promised	nsubj
28	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 promised	iobj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 able	mark
31	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	39 able	advmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 evening	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 evening	det
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 evening	advmod
35	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 perhaps	obl
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 able	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 able	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	cop
39	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 promised	xcomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 obtain	mark
41	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 able	xcomp
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 me	case
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 obtain	obl
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 obtain	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 treasures	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 treasures	det
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 treasures	nummod
48	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 one	nmod
49	for	for	ADP	_	50 which	case
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 seeking	obl
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 seeking	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 seeking	aux
53	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 treasures	acl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take up	past	dryad		me	last		in dryad's delicate hand	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in hand=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	I		dryad		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring out	past · perfect · passive		me		the world			tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	past	dryad		me				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	is not said to happen	should	dryad					able, perhaps property	tree rules
6	obtain	to-infinitive	dryad not said here	one of the two treasures				for me	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme for i=Asset
7	seek	past · progressive	I					for the two treasures	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for which=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.

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