Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 45
The farmer was very hungry, and ate his porridge with a good appetite, but Little Claus could not help thinking of the nice roast meat, fish and pies, which he knew were in the oven.
Who acts: farmer, Little Claus, Claus · What happens: be, eat, not help, think, know · To what, where: porridge, nice roast meat, oven
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 (farmer, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hungry | advmod |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ate | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ate | cc |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 porridge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ate | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 appetite | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 appetite | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 appetite | amod |
| 14 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ate | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 17 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Claus | amod |
| 18 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ate | advcl |
| 22 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 help | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 meat | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 meat | det |
| 25 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 meat | amod |
| 26 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 meat | compound |
| 27 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thinking | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fish | punct |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 meat | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 pies | cc |
| 31 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 meat | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 knew | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 knew | obj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 knew | nsubj |
| 35 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 meat | conj |
| 36 | were | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thinking | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 oven | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 oven | det |
| 39 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 were | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the farmer | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the farmer not said here | farmer's porridge | with a good appetite | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient | |||
| 3 | not help | could | Little Claus | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other not said to happen | gerund | Little Claus not said here | of the nice roast meat and fish and pies | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | know | past | Claus | the nice roast meat and fish and pies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | be | past | Little Claus not said here | the oven | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in oven=Location |
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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