Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 115

And then he brought out his box and rubbed the doll with some of the salve with which he had cured the old woman when she broke her leg.

Who acts: man, woman · What happens: bring out, rub, cure, break · To what, where: box, doll, old woman, leg

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 brought	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 brought	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 brought	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 box	nmod:poss
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rubbed	cc
9	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brought	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 doll	det
11	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbed	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 salve	case
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 salve	det
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 salve	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 salve	det
16	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rubbed	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 cured	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cured	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cured	aux
21	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 salve	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 woman	amod
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cured	obj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 broke	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 broke	nsubj
27	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cured	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 leg	nmod:poss
29	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 broke	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring out	past	man	man's box	then		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent box=Patient
2	rub	past	man not said here	the doll		with some salve	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent doll=Destination with salve=Theme
3	cure	past · perfect	man	the old woman		with some salve	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer woman=Source
4	break	past	woman	woman's leg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=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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