Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 163
"Oh dear, oh dear," sighed Little Claus in the sack, as he turned and twisted about; but he found he could not loosen the string with which it was tied.
Who acts: Little Claus, Claus · What happens: sigh, turn, twist, find, not loosen, tie · To what, where: string · 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 (Little Claus, Claus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5097): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 3 dear | discourse |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sighed | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dear | punct |
| 5 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 dear | discourse |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dear | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dear | punct |
| 9 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Little | Little | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Claus | compound |
| 11 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sighed | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sack | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sack | det |
| 14 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sighed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 turned | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sighed | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twisted | cc |
| 20 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 turned | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 twisted | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sighed | conj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 loosen | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 loosen | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 loosen | advmod |
| 29 | loosen | loosen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 string | det |
| 31 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 loosen | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 tied | obl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 tied | aux:pass |
| 36 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 string | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Little Claus | in the sack | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | Claus | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | twist | past | Claus not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Claus | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not loosen | could | Claus | the string | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 6 | tie | past · passive | string | with the string | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with which=Co-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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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