Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 14

"I'll gee-up your horses for you," said Big Claus; and seizing a hammer, he struck the one horse of Little Claus on the head, and he fell dead instantly.

Who acts: Big Claus, Claus · What happens: gee up, say, seize, strike, fall · To what, where: horses, hammer, one horse · 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 (Big Claus, 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	_	4 gee	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gee	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 gee	aux
4	gee	gee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 gee	compound:prt
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horses	nmod:poss
8	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gee	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 gee	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gee	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 gee	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Claus	amod
15	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 seizing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seizing	cc
18	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hammer	det
20	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seizing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 struck	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 struck	nsubj
23	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horse	det
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 horse	nummod
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 struck	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Claus	case
28	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Claus	amod
29	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 horse	nmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 head	det
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 struck	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fell	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fell	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fell	nsubj
36	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 struck	conj
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fell	xcomp
38	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	36 fell	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gee up in a quote	future	Big Claus = claus	your horses	for you	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Big Claus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seize	gerund	Big Claus not said here	a hammer		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
4	strike	past	Claus	the one horse of Little Claus	on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument on head=Patient
5	fall	past	Claus		dead, instantly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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