Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 152
Great Claus got so frightened that he rushed out of the surgery, jumped into the cart, whipped up his horses, and drove home quickly.
Who acts: Great Claus, Claus · What happens: get, rush out, jump, whip up, drive · To what, where: surgery, cart, horses
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 (Great Claus, Claus), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Claus | amod |
| 2 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 rushed | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 surgery | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 surgery | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 surgery | det |
| 12 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 cart | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cart | det |
| 17 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 whipped | punct |
| 19 | whipped | whip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 whipped | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 whipped | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drove | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drove | cc |
| 25 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 drove | advmod |
| 27 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 25 drove | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Great Claus | frightened property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | rush out | past | Claus | the surgery | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme surgery=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | Great Claus not said here | the cart | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cart=Destination | ||||
| 4 | whip up | past | Great Claus not said here | Claus's horses | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent horse=Material | ||||
| 5 | drive | past | Great Claus not said here | home, quickly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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