Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 3

One of them had four horses, but the other had only one; so to distinguish them, people called the owner of the four horses, "Great Claus," and he who had only one, "Little Claus."

Who acts: One, other, people, Claus · What happens: have, distinguish, call · To what, where: four horses, one, men, owner · 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 (One, other, people, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 had	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 horses	nummod
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 had	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 distinguish	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 distinguish	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 distinguish	mark
17	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 distinguish	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 owner	det
23	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 horses	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 horses	det
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 horses	nummod
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 owner	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Claus	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Claus	punct
30	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Claus	amod
31	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 horses	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Claus	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Claus	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 called	conj
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 one	advmod
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 had	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Claus	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 Claus	punct
42	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Claus	amod
43	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 one	appos
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	One of men	four horses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	have	past	the other	one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	distinguish	to-infinitive	One of men not said here	men = man	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute they=Theme
4	call	past	people	the owner of the four horses	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient
5	have	past	Claus	one	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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