Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 22
I might get permission to stay here for the night," thought Little Claus; so he went up to the door and knocked.
Who acts: I, permission, Claus · What happens: get, stay, think, go up, knock · To what, where: permission, Little
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 (I, permission, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stay | mark |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | xcomp |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stay | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | advcl |
| 14 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | obj |
| 15 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Little | flat |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 went | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knocked | cc |
| 25 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | might | I | permission | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | to-infinitive | permission not said here | here | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | permission not said here | Little | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot little=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go up in a quote | past | Claus | to the door | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | knock in a quote | past | Claus not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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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