Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 16
But after a while he took off the dead horse's skin, and hung the hide to dry in the wind.
Who acts: Claus · What happens: take off, hang, dry · To what, where: skin, hide, wind
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 while | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 while | det |
| 4 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hung | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hung | cc |
| 15 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hide | det |
| 17 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hung | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 dry | mark |
| 19 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hung | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 wind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wind | det |
| 22 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dry | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | Claus | the dead horse's skin | while | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | past | Claus not said here | the hide | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dry | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | the wind | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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