Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 111
And Great Claus was obliged to run as fast as he could, he had never before been so thoroughly beaten.
What happens: oblige, run, beat · To what, where: Great Claus, Claus
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 obliged | cc |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Claus | amod |
| 3 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 obliged | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obliged | aux:pass |
| 5 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 run | mark |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 obliged | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 run | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beaten | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beaten | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beaten | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 before | advmod |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 beaten | advmod |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 beaten | aux:pass |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 beaten | advmod |
| 20 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 21 beaten | advmod |
| 21 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 obliged | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | Great Claus | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beat | past · perfect · passive | Claus | before, thoroughly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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