Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 139
How is this?" thought Great Claus; "did I not kill him?
Who acts: this, I · What happens: be, think, not kill · To what, where: this, Great · 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 (this, I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 this | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 this | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 this | punct |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 8 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Great | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 kill | advmod |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | this | Great | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent great=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not kill | past · do-support | I | Great | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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