Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 170
Will you take care of my cattle?" said the old man, as he crept into the bag.
Who acts: you, old man, cattle · What happens: take, say, creep · To what, where: care, bag · 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 (you, old man, cattle), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cattle | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crept | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 crept | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 crept | nsubj |
| 17 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 bag | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bag | det |
| 20 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crept | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | you | care | of my cattle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of cattle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | creep in a quote | past | cattle | the bag | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into bag=Destination |
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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