The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 62

Old Eric eagerly promised this, if Hans would only let him go; so Hans rowed ashore, ate up the rest of his provisions, and went home to bed.

Who acts: Old Eric, Hans, Eric · What happens: promise, let, go, row, eat up, provide · To what, where: this, Eric, rest, bed

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Eric, Hans, Eric), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Eric	amod
2	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	4 promised	advmod
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 promised	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 let	mark
8	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 let	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 let	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 let	advmod
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 rowed	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 rowed	advmod
16	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 rowed	nsubj
17	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
18	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	17 rowed	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ate	punct
20	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 rowed	conj
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 ate	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rest	det
23	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ate	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 provisions	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 provisions	nmod:poss
26	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rest	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 went	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 bed	case
32	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Old Eric	this		eagerly property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent this=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let a condition, not said to happen	would	Hans	Eric			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Eric not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	row	past	Hans			ashore property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	eat up	past	Hans not said here	the rest of Hans's provisions			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
6	go	past	Old Eric not said here		bed	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
7	provide		Hans				nom provision «communication intransitive»: 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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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