Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 24

Then I shall be obliged to lie out here," said Little Claus to himself, as the farmer's wife shut the door in his face.

Who acts: Little Claus, wife · What happens: oblige, lie out, say, shut · To what, where: I, Claus, door, face · 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, wife), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 obliged	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 obliged	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 obliged	aux:pass
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 obliged	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 lie	compound:prt
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 lie	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Claus	amod
14	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shut	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 shut	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 farmer	det
20	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wife	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 farmer	case
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shut	nsubj
23	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 door	det
25	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shut	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 face	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shut	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	oblige	shall · passive		I			then	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	lie out	to-infinitive				here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Little Claus		Claus			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	shut in a quote	past	the farmer's wife	the door		Claus's face		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=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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