Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 172
When Great Claus came out of church, he took up the sack, and placed it on his shoulders.
Who acts: Great Claus, Claus · What happens: come out, take up, place · To what, where: church, sack, shoulders
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 (Great 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Claus | amod |
| 3 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sack | det |
| 13 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 placed | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shoulders | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 placed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Great Claus | church | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | Claus | the sack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | Claus not said here | church | Claus's shoulders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=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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