Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 21

His grandfather promised him that he should have them some day, but that he must first grow big and strong, and learn how to use them.

Who acts: grandfather, boy · What happens: promise, have, grow, learn, use · To what, where: boy, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, boy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 grandfather	nmod:poss
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promised	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	obj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 grow	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 grow	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grow	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 grow	advmod
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	conj
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grow	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 strong	cc
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 big	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 learn	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 learn	cc
24	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	parataxis
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 use	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 use	mark
27	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 learn	xcomp
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 use	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	boy's grandfather		boy			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	should	boy	eyes = eye		day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	grow	must	boy				big, first property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	learn	infinitive						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	use	to-infinitive		eyes = eye				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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