Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 126

"Yes," said Little Claus; "I am going to the town with my old grandmother; she is sitting at the back of the wagon, but I cannot bring her into the room.

Who acts: Little, grandmother · What happens: say, go, sit, not bring · To what, where: town, back, grandmother, room · 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 (Little, grandmother), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	nsubj
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 grandmother	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grandmother	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grandmother	amod
19	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 going	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sitting	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sitting	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 back	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 back	det
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sitting	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 wagon	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wagon	det
29	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 back	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bring	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 bring	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 bring	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 bring	advmod
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sitting	parataxis
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 room	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 room	det
39	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go in a quote	present · progressive	Little		the town	with my old grandmother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
3	sit in a quote	present · progressive	grandmother		the back of the wagon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
4	not bring in a quote	can	Little	grandmother	the room		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination

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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