Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 145
So he went home, took a hatchet, and killed his old grandmother with one blow.
Who acts: price · What happens: go, take, kill · To what, where: hatchet, old grandmother
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 (price), 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hatchet | det |
| 8 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 killed | cc |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grandmother | amod |
| 14 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 blow | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 blow | nummod |
| 17 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | price | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | price not said here | a hatchet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | price not said here | price's old grandmother | with one blow | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient with blow=Instrument |
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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