Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 141
So he went to Little Claus, and took the bushel measure with him. "
Who acts: Great · What happens: go, take · To what, where: Little, 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 (Great), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Little | case |
| 5 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Little | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 measure | det |
| 11 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 measure | compound |
| 12 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Great | Little | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to little=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Great not said here | the bushel measure | with Great | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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