Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 158

So he laid hold of Little Claus round the body, and pushed him into the sack, which he took on his shoulders, saying, "Now I'm going to drown you in the river."

Who acts: Claus, sack · What happens: lay, push, take on, say, go, drown · To what, where: hold, Claus, sack, shoulders, you, river · 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 (Claus, sack), 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 laid	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Claus	case
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Claus	amod
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hold	nmod
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 body	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pushed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pushed	cc
13	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pushed	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 sack	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sack	det
17	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 took	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sack	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 shoulders	nmod:poss
24	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 saying	punct
26	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 pushed	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 going	punct
29	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 going	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 going	nsubj
31	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 going	aux
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 saying	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 drown	mark
34	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 going	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 drown	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 river	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 river	det
38	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drown	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	Claus	hold of Little Claus			round the body	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	push	past	Claus not said here	Claus	the sack			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into sack=Destination
3	take on	past	the sack	Claus's shoulders				vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Claus not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	go in a quote	present · progressive	Claus			now		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	drown in a quote	to-infinitive	Claus not said here	you	the river			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
7	hold			Little Claus				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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