Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 112
"Ah," said he, as he came to his house; "Little Claus shall pay me for this; I will beat him to death."
Who acts: Claus, Little Claus · What happens: say, come, pay, beat · To what, where: house, Claus, death · 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 (Claus, Little 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 pay | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 pay | punct |
| 16 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Claus | amod |
| 17 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 pay | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 pay | aux |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pay | iobj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 this | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 pay | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 beat | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 beat | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 beat | aux |
| 26 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beat | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 death | case |
| 29 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beat | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Claus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Claus | Claus's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | shall | Little Claus | Claus | for this | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Asset for this=Theme | |||
| 4 | beat in a quote | future | Claus | Claus | death | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Recipient |
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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