Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 117

He knew well where Little Claus's bed stood; so he went right up to it, and struck the old grandmother on the head, thinking it must be Little Claus.

Who acts: Claus, bed · What happens: know, stand, go, strike, think, be · To what, where: bed, old grandmother, Little 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, bed), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 stood	advmod
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bed	nmod:poss
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Little	flat
7	's	's	PART	_	5 Little	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
14	right	right	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	up	up	ADP	_	17 it	case
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 struck	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 grandmother	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grandmother	amod
23	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 head	det
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thinking	punct
28	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 struck	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 Claus	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 Claus	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 Claus	cop
32	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Claus	amod
33	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 thinking	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	Claus			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stand	past	Little's bed				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Claus		bed	right property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up it=Initial_Location
4	strike	past		the old grandmother		on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Instrument on head=Patient
5	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	must	bed	Little Claus			tree rules

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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