Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 178
Then he turned to go home, but when he came to a place where two roads crossed, there was Little Claus driving the cattle. "
Who acts: Claus, two roads, Little Claus · What happens: turn, go, come, cross, be, drive · To what, where: place, cattle
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, two roads, Little 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 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 was | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 crossed | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 roads | nummod |
| 17 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crossed | nsubj |
| 18 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 22 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Claus | amod |
| 23 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 24 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 Claus | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cattle | det |
| 26 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 driving | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Claus | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Claus | a place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cross | participle | two roads | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be | past | Little Claus | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drive | gerund | Little Claus not said here | the cattle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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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