Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 207
So he crept into a large sack, which had been lying across the back of one of the oxen.
Who acts: Great, large sack · What happens: creep, lie · To what, where: large sack, back
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 (Great, large sack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 sack | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sack | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sack | amod |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lying | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lying | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lying | aux |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sack | conj |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 back | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 oxen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oxen | det |
| 20 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | Great | a large sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sack=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lie | past · perfect · progressive | a large sack | the back of one of the oxen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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