Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 211
In went Great Claus, and immediately sank to the bottom of the river.
What happens: go, sink · To what, where: Great Claus
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 went | case |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Claus | amod |
| 4 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sank | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sank | cc |
| 7 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 8 sank | advmod |
| 8 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sank | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bottom | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Great Claus | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location claus=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sink | past | to the bottom of the river; immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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