Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 137

So it happened that Little Claus received another bushel of money, and the landlord buried his old grandmother as if she had been his own.

Who acts: it, Little Claus, landlord, grandmother · What happens: happen, receive, bury, be · To what, where: bushel, old grandmother

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 (it, Little Claus, landlord, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 received	mark
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Claus	amod
6	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 received	nsubj
7	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 bushel	det
9	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 received	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 money	case
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bushel	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 buried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 buried	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 landlord	det
15	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buried	nsubj
16	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 grandmother	nmod:poss
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grandmother	amod
19	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buried	obj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 own	mark
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 own	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 own	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 own	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 own	cop
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 own	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 buried	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	receive	past	Little Claus	another bushel of money		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme
3	bury	past	the landlord	Claus's old grandmother		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
4	is	past · perfect	grandmother		own property	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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