Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 23

The farmer's wife opened the door; but when she heard what he wanted, she told him to go away, as her husband would not allow her to admit strangers. "

Who acts: wife, farmer, husband · What happens: open, hear, want, tell, go away, not allow · To what, where: door, farmer, wife, strangers · 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 (wife, farmer, husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
12	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 told	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 heard	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	xcomp
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 allow	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 allow	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 husband	nmod:poss
26	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 allow	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 allow	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 allow	advmod
29	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 allow	iobj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 admit	mark
32	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 allow	xcomp
33	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 admit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the farmer's wife	the door			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
2	hear	past	wife				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	want	past	farmer				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	tell speech: assert	past	wife		farmer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not allow	would	wife's husband		wife		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	admit speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here	strangers			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=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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