Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 142
How did you get all this money?" asked Great Claus, staring with wide open eyes at his neighbor's treasures.
Who acts: you, neighbor · What happens: get, ask, stare, treasure · To what, where: money, 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 (you, neighbor), 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 | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 money | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 money | det |
| 7 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Great | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 staring | punct |
| 14 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 staring | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 treasures | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 neighbor | case |
| 23 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 staring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | you | all money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer money=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Great | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent great=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stare in a quote | gerund | with wide open eyes; at Great's neighbor's treasures | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at treasure=Theme | |||||
| 4 | treasure in a quote | Great's neighbor | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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