Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 138
When Little Claus reached home again, he immediately sent a boy to Great Claus, requesting him to lend him a bushel measure. "
Who acts: Little, Claus · What happens: reach, send, request, lend · To what, where: boy, Great Claus, Claus, bushel measure
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, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Little | flat |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | advcl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 sent | advmod |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Claus | case |
| 14 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Claus | flat |
| 15 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 boy | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 requesting | punct |
| 17 | requesting | request | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sent | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 requesting | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lend | mark |
| 20 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 requesting | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lend | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 measure | det |
| 23 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 measure | compound |
| 24 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lend | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Little | again | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | send | past | Claus | a boy | Great Claus | immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to claus=Destination | ||
| 3 | request | gerund | Claus not said here | Claus | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lend | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | a bushel measure | Claus | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient measure=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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