Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 116
During the night, as he sat there, the door opened, and in came Great Claus with a hatchet.
Who acts: Claus, door · What happens: sit, open, come · To what, where: Great 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: who acts (Claus, door), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 sat | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 sat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 came | case |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 17 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Claus | flat |
| 18 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hatchet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hatchet | det |
| 21 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Claus | there | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Claus not said here | Great Claus | with a hatchet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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