Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 196

"Well," said Little Claus, "it was good policy on my part; you heard me say just now that I was told by the sea-maiden to go a mile farther on the road, and I should find a whole herd of cattle.

Who acts: Little, fish, you · What happens: say, be, hear, tell, go, find · To what, where: good policy, part, Little, mile, whole herd · 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, fish, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	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	_	13 policy	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 policy	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 policy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 policy	cop
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 policy	amod
13	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 part	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 part	nmod:poss
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 policy	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 heard	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obj
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	xcomp
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 now	advmod
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 say	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 told	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux:pass
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 now	advcl
28	by	by	SCONJ	_	32 maiden	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 maiden	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 maiden	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 sea	punct
32	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 told	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 go	mark
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 maiden	csubj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mile	det
36	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obj
37	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	34 go	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 road	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 road	det
40	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 farther	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 find	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 find	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 find	nsubj
44	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 find	aux
45	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 heard	conj
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 herd	det
47	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 herd	amod
48	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 find	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 cattle	case
50	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 herd	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	past	fish	good policy	my part			tree rules
3	hear in a quote	past	you	Little				tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Little not said here			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	past · passive		Little				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	go in a quote	to-infinitive		a mile			far property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme
7	find in a quote	should	Little	a whole herd of cattle				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Topic

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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