Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 161
Great Claus put down the sack close to the church-door, and thought he might as well go in and hear a psalm before he went any farther.
Who acts: Great Claus, Claus · What happens: put down, think, go in, hear, go · To what, where: sack, psalm · 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 (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 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sack | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 church | punct |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 20 go | cc |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hear | cc |
| 23 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 psalm | det |
| 25 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hear | obj |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 28 went | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hear | advcl |
| 29 | any | any | ADV | _ | 30 farther | advmod |
| 30 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 went | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | Great Claus | the sack | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sack=Goal | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Great Claus not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go in | might | Claus | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | Claus not said here | a psalm | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer psalm=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Claus | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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