Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 159
He had a long way to go before he reached the river, and Little Claus was not a very light weight to carry.
Who acts: Claus, Little Claus · What happens: have, go, reach, not be, carry · To what, where: long way, river, light weight
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, Little 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weight | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weight | cc |
| 15 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Claus | amod |
| 16 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 weight | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 weight | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 weight | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 weight | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 light | advmod |
| 21 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 weight | amod |
| 22 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 carry | mark |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 weight | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Claus | a long way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | a long way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Claus | the river | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a | past | Little Claus | a light weight | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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