Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 102

"It was certainly well paid for then," said Great Claus; and he ran home to his house, seized a hatchet, and knocked all his four horses on the head, flayed off their skins, and took them to the town to sell. "

Who acts: Great · What happens: pay, say, run, seize, knock, flay · To what, where: skin, hatchet, four horses, head, horses, town · 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 (Great), 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	_	6 paid	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 paid	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 paid	aux:pass
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 paid	advmod
6	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 paid	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 paid	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Great	flat
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ran	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ran	nsubj
17	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 ran	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 house	nmod:poss
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ran	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seized	punct
23	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 ran	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hatchet	det
25	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seized	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 knocked	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knocked	cc
28	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 horses	det:predet
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 horses	nmod:poss
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 horses	nummod
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knocked	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 head	det
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 horses	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flayed	punct
37	flayed	flay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 horses	acl
38	off	off	ADP	_	40 skins	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 skins	nmod:poss
40	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 flayed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 took	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 took	cc
43	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 knocked	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 took	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 town	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 town	det
47	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	obl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 sell	mark
49	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 took	advcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
51	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pay in a quote	past · passive		skin		well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for then=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Great				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	run	past	Great			to Great's house result; home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
4	seize	past	Great not said here	a hatchet			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme
5	knock	past		Great's four horses	the head		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on head=Destination
6	flay	participle		Great's four horses not said here		off horses's skins	tree rules
7	take	past		horses = horse	the town		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to town=Destination
8	sell	to-infinitive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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