Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 17
Then he put the dry skin into a bag, and, placing it over his shoulder, went out into the next town to sell the horse's skin.
Who acts: Claus · What happens: put, place, go out, sell · To what, where: dry skin, bag, skin, shoulder, next town
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bag | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placing | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placing | punct |
| 13 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placing | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 town | amod |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sell | mark |
| 26 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 went | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 skin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 horse | case |
| 30 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sell | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Claus | the dry skin | a bag | then | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent skin=Goal | ||
| 2 | place | gerund | Claus not said here | skin | Claus's shoulder | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | go out | past | Claus not said here | the next town | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | sell | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | the horse's skin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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