Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 176

So he walked on to the river, which was deep and broad, and threw the sack containing the old drover into the water, believing it to be Little Claus. "

Who acts: Claus, river, sack · What happens: walk on, be, throw, contain, believe · To what, where: sack, old drover, water, river, Little Claus · 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 (Claus, river, sack), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deep	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 deep	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 deep	cop
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 broad	cc
13	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deep	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 threw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threw	cc
16	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sack	det
18	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 threw	obj
19	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 sack	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 drover	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 drover	amod
22	drover	drover	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 containing	obj
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 containing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 believing	punct
27	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 threw	advcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 believing	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	32 Claus	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 Claus	cop
31	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Claus	amod
32	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 believing	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk on	past	Claus			to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result
2	is	past	the river			deep property	tree rules
3	be		the river not said here				tree rules
4	throw	past	Claus not said here	the sack			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
5	contain	gerund	the sack not said here	the old drover	the water		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot drover=Theme
6	believe	gerund	Claus not said here	river			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
7	is a	to-infinitive		Little Claus			tree rules

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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