Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 143

"You killed my grandmother instead of me," said Little Claus; "so I have sold her for a bushel of money."

Who acts: You, Little · What happens: kill, say, sell · To what, where: grandmother · 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, Little), 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	_	3 killed	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 killed	nsubj
3	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 killed	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 me	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 killed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 killed	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	nsubj
13	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Little	flat
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sold	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 sold	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 sold	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sold	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 sold	aux
19	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sold	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 bushel	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bushel	det
23	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sold	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 money	case
25	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bushel	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	past	You	my grandmother	instead Little	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Little			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sell in a quote	present · perfect	Little	grandmother	for a bushel of money	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme for bushel=Asset

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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