Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 33
If one appeared before him, he would put himself in a terrible rage.
Who acts: one, Claus · What happens: appear, put · To what, where: Claus, terrible rage
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 appeared | mark |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | advcl |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rage | det |
| 13 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rage | amod |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear a condition, not said to happen | past | one | before Claus | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | ||||
| 2 | put | would | Claus | Claus | a terrible rage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in rage=Destination |
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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