Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 21

Only promise to bring me an old tinder-box, which my grandmother left behind the last time she went down there."

Who acts: you, old tinder box, witch · What happens: promise, bring, grandmother, leave, go down · To what, where: old tinder box, me, grandmother, last time

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 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 (you, old tinder box, witch), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 promise	advmod
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bring	mark
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	xcomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bring	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 box	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 box	amod
8	tinder	tinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 tinder	punct
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grandmother	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 grandmother	nsubj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 grandmother	nmod:poss
14	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	appos
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 grandmother	acl
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 time	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 time	acl:relcl
22	down	down	ADV	_	23 there	advmod
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 went	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a old tinder box	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination box=Theme
3	grandmother		a old tinder box					tree rules
4	leave	participle		my grandmother not said here			time	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go down	past	witch	the last time not said here		there		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient time=Extent

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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