Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 90

John proposed directly that they should carry the old woman home to her cottage; but the stranger opened his knapsack and took out a box, in which he said he had a salve that would quickly make her leg well and strong again, so that she would be able to walk home herself, as if her leg had never been broken.

Who acts: John, twigs, stranger, salve, woman · What happens: propose, carry, open, take out, say, have · To what, where: old woman, cottage, knapsack, box, salve, leg · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (John, twigs, stranger, salve), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 proposed	nsubj
2	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 proposed	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 carry	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carry	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 carry	aux
7	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 proposed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woman	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 woman	amod
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obj
11	home	home	ADV	_	7 carry	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 cottage	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cottage	nmod:poss
14	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carry	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 opened	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 opened	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stranger	det
18	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	nsubj
19	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 proposed	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knapsack	nmod:poss
21	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 opened	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 opened	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 took	compound:prt
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 box	det
26	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 said	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 salve	det
35	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 make	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	39 make	advmod
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 salve	acl:relcl
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 leg	nmod:poss
41	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
42	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 strong	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 strong	cc
44	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 make	advcl
45	again	again	ADV	_	44 strong	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 able	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	52 able	advmod
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 able	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 able	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 able	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 able	cop
52	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proposed	parataxis
53	to	to	PART	_	54 walk	mark
54	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 able	xcomp
55	home	home	ADV	_	54 walk	advmod
56	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	54 walk	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 broken	punct
58	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 broken	mark
59	if	if	SCONJ	_	65 broken	mark
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 leg	nmod:poss
61	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 broken	nsubj:pass
62	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 broken	aux
63	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	65 broken	advmod
64	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	65 broken	aux:pass
65	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 walk	advcl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	propose	past	John			directly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	carry	should	twigs = twig	the old woman	woman's cottage	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme to cottage=Destination
3	open	past	the stranger	John's knapsack			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knapsack=Theme
4	take out	past	the stranger not said here	a box			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	John				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	John	a salve			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salve=Patient
7	make	would	a salve	woman's leg		quickly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product
8	is	would	woman			able property	tree rules
9	walk	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman		home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not break	past · perfect · passive		woman's leg			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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