Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 100
"What does this mean?" said Great Claus; so he ran off directly to Little Claus, and asked, "Where did you get so much money?"
Who acts: this, Great, you · What happens: mean, say, run off, ask, get · To what, where: much money · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Great, you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 mean | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | ccomp |
| 9 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Great | flat |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mean | parataxis |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 ran | compound:prt |
| 16 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Little | case |
| 18 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ran | obl |
| 19 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Little | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ran | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 25 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 get | advmod |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 get | nsubj |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 asked | ccomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 money | amod |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Great | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run off | past | Great | to Little result; directly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to little=Result | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Great not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | much money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus |
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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