Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 162
Little Claus could not possibly get out of the sack, and all the people were in church; so in he went.
Who acts: Little Claus, people, Claus · What happens: not get out, be, go · To what, where: sack, church
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 (Little Claus, people, 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Claus | amod |
| 2 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 5 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sack | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sack | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sack | det |
| 10 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 church | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 church | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 people | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 church | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 church | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 church | case |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sack | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 went | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 went | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get out | could | Little Claus | the sack and church | possibly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | all people | church | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Claus | 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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