Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 119
"That is a very wicked man," thought Little Claus; "he meant to kill me.
Who acts: That, wicked man, Claus · What happens: be, think, mean, kill · To what, where: wicked man, Little · 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 (That, wicked man, 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 | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 wicked | advmod |
| 6 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | obj |
| 12 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Little | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 meant | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 meant | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 meant | nsubj |
| 16 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 kill | mark |
| 18 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 meant | xcomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 kill | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a wicked man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a wicked man | Little | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent little=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | past | Claus | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | a wicked man = man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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