Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 146

Then he placed her on a cart, and drove into the town to the apothecary, and asked him if he would buy a dead body.

Who acts: price · What happens: place, drive, ask, buy · To what, where: grandmother, cart, town, price, dead body

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 placed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 cart	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cart	det
7	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 drove	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drove	cc
10	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 town	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 town	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 apothecary	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 apothecary	det
16	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drove	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	iobj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 buy	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 buy	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 buy	aux
24	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 asked	xcomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 body	det
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 body	amod
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 buy	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	price	grandmother		a cart	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on cart=Destination
2	drive	past	price not said here			the town		to the apothecary	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory
3	ask speech: ask	past	price not said here		price				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	buy a condition, not said to happen	would	price	a dead body					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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