Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 11

But Little Claus soon forgot what he ought to say, and when any one passed he would call out, "Gee-up, my five horses!"

Who acts: Little Claus, one, Claus · What happens: forget, say, pass, call out · To what, where: Gee up · 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 (Little Claus, one, Claus), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 forgot	cc
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Claus	amod
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 forgot	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 forgot	advmod
5	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 forgot	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ought	nsubj
8	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 say	mark
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ought	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 passed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 passed	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 passed	advmod
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passed	nsubj
16	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 forgot	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 call	aux
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 passed	xcomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 call	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
23	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 up	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
25	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 call	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 horses	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 horses	nmod:poss
28	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 horses	nummod
29	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 up	conj
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 forgot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forget	past	Little Claus		soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Little Claus not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	pass	past	any one			tree rules
4	call out speech: assert	would	Claus	Gee up and my five horses		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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