Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 212
"I'm afraid he will not find any cattle," said Little Claus, and then he drove his own beasts homewards.
Who acts: Little Claus, Claus · What happens: be, not find, say, drive · To what, where: cattle, own beasts homewards · 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 Claus, Claus), 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 | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 find | advmod |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cattle | det |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Claus | amod |
| 15 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drove | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drove | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 drove | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 drove | nsubj |
| 20 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 homewards | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 homewards | amod |
| 23 | beasts | beasts | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 homewards | compound |
| 24 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 drove | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Little Claus = claus | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find in a quote | future | Claus | any cattle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Little Claus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drive | past | Claus | Claus's own beasts homewards | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=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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