Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 108

"He is making fools of us," said they all; then the shoemakers took their straps, and the tanners their leather aprons, and began to beat Great Claus.

Who acts: bushel, shoemakers, tanners · What happens: make, say, take, apron, begin, beat · To what, where: fools, straps, Great · 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 (bushel, shoemakers, tanners), 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	_	4 making	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 making	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
5	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 fools	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	ccomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 they	det
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 took	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoemakers	det
16	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 straps	nmod:poss
19	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 aprons	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 aprons	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tanners	det
23	tanners	tanner	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 aprons	nsubj
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 aprons	nmod:poss
25	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 aprons	compound
26	aprons	apron	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 beat	mark
31	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 beat	obj
33	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Great	flat
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · progressive	bushel	fools of us		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Product
2	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take	past	the shoemakers	shoemakers's straps	then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Theme
4	apron		the tanners			tree rules
5	begin	past	the shoemakers not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	beat	to-infinitive	the shoemakers not said here	Great		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location great=Theme

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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