Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 169
"With all my heart," replied the drover, opening the sack, from which sprung Little Claus as quickly as possible. "
Who acts: drover · What happens: reply, open, spring · To what, where: sack, Little Claus
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 (drover), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 heart | det:predet |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drover | det |
| 10 | drover | drover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opening | punct |
| 12 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sack | det |
| 14 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sprung | punct |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sprung | obl |
| 18 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 replied | conj |
| 19 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Claus | amod |
| 20 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sprung | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | advmod |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 sprung | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 possible | mark |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 quickly | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the drover | with my heart | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | the drover not said here | the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring | participle | the drover not said here | Little Claus | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location claus=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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