Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 165
They stumbled against the sack in which lay Little Claus, and turned it over. "
Who acts: oxen · What happens: stumble, lie, turn over · To what, where: sack, Little Claus, herd
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 (oxen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stumbled | nsubj |
| 2 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 sack | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sack | det |
| 5 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stumbled | obl |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 lay | mark |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stumbled | advcl |
| 9 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Claus | amod |
| 10 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stumbled | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stumbled | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stumbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble | past | oxen = ox | the sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against sack=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Little Claus | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location claus=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn over | past | oxen = ox not said here | herd | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=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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