Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 200
"Yes, I think so," said Little Claus; "but I cannot carry you there in a sack, you are too heavy.
Who acts: Little, you · What happens: think, say, not carry, be · To what, where: you, sack · 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 think | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 think | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Little | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 carry | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 carry | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 carry | advmod |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 carry | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sack | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sack | det |
| 23 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 heavy | punct |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 heavy | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 heavy | cop |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 heavy | advmod |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carry | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Little | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not carry in a quote | can | Little | you | a sack; there | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in sack=Location | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | heavy property | 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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