Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 5

Then he immediately spoke to John's comrade, and promised him all the money he might receive at the next evening's performance, if he would only rub the ointment on four or five of his dolls.

Who acts: man, next evening · What happens: speak, promise, receive, rub, perform · To what, where: money, man, performance, ointment, four · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, next evening), 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	4 spoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 comrade	case
6	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 comrade	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 John	case
8	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promised	cc
11	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 promised	iobj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 money	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 money	det
15	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 promised	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 receive	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 receive	aux
18	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 money	acl:relcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	24 performance	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evening	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 evening	amod
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 performance	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 evening	case
24	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 receive	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 rub	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 rub	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rub	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 rub	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 rub	advmod
30	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promised	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ointment	det
32	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rub	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 four	case
34	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 rub	obl
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 five	cc
36	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 four	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 dolls	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 dolls	nmod:poss
39	dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 five	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man				then	to John's comrade; immediately property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to comrade=Co-Agent
2	promise speech: promise	past	man not said here	all money	man				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal money=Theme
3	receive	might	man	all money not said here		the next evening's performance			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent money=Theme at performance=Location
4	rub a condition, not said to happen	would	man	the ointment		four			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme on four=Destination
5	perform		the next evening						nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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