Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 29
If I could only get some, too," thought Little Claus; and then, as he stretched his neck towards the window he spied a large, beautiful pie,--indeed they had a glorious feast before them.
Who acts: I, Claus, windows · What happens: get, think, stretch, spy, have · To what, where: some, Little Claus, neck, large beautiful pie, glorious feast
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, Claus, windows), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | advcl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 get | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 some | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 get | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Claus | amod |
| 13 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 stretched | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stretched | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stretched | nsubj |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obj |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spied | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spied | nsubj |
| 27 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stretched | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pie | det |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pie | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 large | punct |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pie | amod |
| 32 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spied | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 had | punct |
| 35 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 37 had | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 spied | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 feast | det |
| 39 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 feast | amod |
| 40 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 had | obj |
| 41 | before | before | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 had | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | I | some | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Little Claus | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot claus=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stretch in a quote | past | Claus | Claus's neck | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | |||
| 4 | spy in a quote | past | Claus | a large beautiful pie | towards the window | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pie=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | have in a quote | past | windows = window | a glorious feast | before wine | indeed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=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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