Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 181

"Yes," said Little Claus; "you threw me into the river about half an hour ago."

Who acts: Little, you · What happens: say, throw · To what, where: Little, river · 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, you), 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	nsubj
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 threw	nsubj
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 half	advmod
17	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	19 hour	det:predet
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ago	obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 threw	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	throw in a quote	past	you	Little				into the river result; ago property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into river=Result

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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