Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 209

"Oh, there's not much fear of that," he replied; still he put a large stone into the bag, and then tied it tightly, and gave it a push.

Who acts: Great · What happens: be, reply, put, tie, give · To what, where: much fear, large stone, bag · 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 (Great), 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	_	8 fear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 's	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fear	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fear	amod
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replied	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fear	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fear	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
16	still	still	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	nsubj
18	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 stone	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stone	amod
21	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 bag	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bag	det
24	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tied	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tied	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 tied	advmod
28	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 tied	obj
30	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	28 tied	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gave	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 gave	obj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 push	det
36	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		much fear			of that	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	Great					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	put	past	Great	a large stone	the bag	still		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stone=Goal
4	tie	past	Great not said here	bag		then	tightly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	give	past	Great not said here	bag				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient push=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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