Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 201

However if you will go there first, and then creep into a sack, I will throw you in with the greatest pleasure."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: go, creep, throw in · To what, where: sack, you

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 (you, I), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 go	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 creep	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 creep	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 creep	advmod
11	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sack	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sack	det
14	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 creep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 throw	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 throw	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 throw	aux
18	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 creep	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 throw	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	18 throw	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 pleasure	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pleasure	det
23	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 pleasure	amod
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	you		there		first, however property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	creep	infinitive	you not said here		a sack	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sack=Destination
3	throw in	future	I	you			with the greatest pleasure	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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