Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 171
"Yes," said Little Claus, and he tied up the sack, and then walked off with all the cows and oxen.
Who acts: Little Claus, Claus · What happens: say, tie up, walk off · To what, where: sack · 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.
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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Claus | amod |
| 7 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tied | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tied | nsubj |
| 11 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 tied | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sack | det |
| 14 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walked | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 walked | advmod |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 walked | compound:prt |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cows | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 cows | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cows | det |
| 23 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 walked | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 oxen | cc |
| 25 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cows | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Claus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tie up | past | Claus | the sack | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | ||||
| 3 | walk off | past | Little Claus not said here | then | with all cows and oxen | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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