Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 155
So as soon as he reached home he took the largest sack he could find and went over to Little Claus. "
Who acts: Claus · What happens: reach, take, find, go over · To what, where: largest sack, Little Claus
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 reached | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 reached | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sack | det |
| 11 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 sack | amod |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sack | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Claus | case |
| 20 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Claus | amod |
| 21 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Claus | home, soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Claus | the largest sack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | could | Claus | the largest sack not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go over | past | Claus not said here | Little Claus | over property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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