Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 42
So Little Claus came down and told the farmer how he had lost his way and begged for a night's lodging.
Who acts: Little Claus, Claus · What happens: come down, tell, lose, beg · To what, where: farmer, way · 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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Claus | amod |
| 3 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 farmer | det |
| 9 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 lost | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begged | cc |
| 17 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lost | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 lodging | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 night | case |
| 22 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 begged | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | Little Claus | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Little Claus not said here | the farmer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | Claus | Claus's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | participle | Claus not said here | for a night's lodging | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for lodging=Topic |
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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