Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 148

"It is my grandmother," he replied; "I killed her with a blow, that I might get a bushel of money for her."

Who acts: body, apothecary · What happens: be, reply, kill, get · To what, where: grandmother, bushel · 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 (body, apothecary), 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	_	5 grandmother	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grandmother	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 grandmother	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 killed	nsubj
13	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 killed	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 blow	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blow	det
17	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 killed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 get	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 get	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 get	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 get	aux
22	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 killed	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bushel	det
24	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 get	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 money	case
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bushel	nmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 get	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	body	my grandmother		tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	apothecary			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	kill in a quote	past	apothecary	grandmother	with a blow	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with blow=Instrument
4	get in a quote	might	apothecary	a bushel of money	for grandmother	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme for she=Beneficiary

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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