Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 64

The volunteer had, however, presence of mind enough to whisper, "It is for a wager;" but the first thing he did, when he reached his own room, was to put a large blister on his neck, and another on his back, that his crazy fit might be cured.

Who acts: volunteer, presence, Ho, first thing · What happens: have, whisper, be, do, reach, cure · To what, where: presence, first thing, own room, neck, another · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (volunteer, presence, Ho, first thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 volunteer	det
2	volunteer	volunteer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 presence	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	7 presence	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 presence	punct
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 mind	case
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 presence	nmod
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 whisper	mark
12	whisper	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wager	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 wager	punct
15	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wager	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 wager	cop
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 wager	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wager	det
19	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whisper	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 put	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	nsubj:outer
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 did	nsubj
27	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reached	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 reached	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reached	nsubj
31	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thing	parataxis
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 room	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 room	amod
34	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reached	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reached	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 put	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 put	mark
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 blister	det
40	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 blister	amod
41	blister	blister	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 neck	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 neck	nmod:poss
44	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 put	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 cured	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 cured	cc
47	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	58 cured	nsubj:pass
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 back	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 back	nmod:poss
50	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 another	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 cured	punct
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 cured	mark
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 fit	nmod:poss
54	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 fit	amod
55	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 cured	nsubj:pass
56	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 cured	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 cured	aux:pass
58	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the volunteer	presence of mind		enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Patient
2	whisper speech: assert	to-infinitive	the volunteer not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	presence			for a wager	tree rules
4	do	past	Ho	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	reach	past	Ho	Ho's own room			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent room=Theme
6	is	past	the first thing		Ho's neck	put property	tree rules
7	cure	might · passive		another			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source

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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