Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 187

She took me by the hand, and said, 'So you are come, Little Claus, and here are some cattle for you to begin with.

Who acts: maiden, you, cattle · What happens: take, say, be, begin · To what, where: me · 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 (maiden, you, cattle), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	iobj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hand	det
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	So	so	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 come	cop
15	come	come	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Claus	punct
17	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Claus	amod
18	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 here	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 here	cc
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 took	parataxis
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 here	cop
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 cattle	det
24	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 here	nsubj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 begin	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 begin	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 begin	mark
28	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 cattle	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	28 begin	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	maiden	me	by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	maiden not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	you		Little Claus obl; come property	tree rules
4	is	present	some cattle		here property	tree rules
5	begin	to-infinitive	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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