Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 46
Under the table, at his feet, lay the sack containing the horse's skin, which he intended to sell at the next town.
Who acts: sack · What happens: lie, contain, intend, sell · To what, where: table, skin, next town
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 (sack), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5017): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feet | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feet | punct |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sack | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 containing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 intended | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sell | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 intended | nsubj |
| 20 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 skin | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sell | mark |
| 22 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 intended | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 town | amod |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the sack | the table | at farmer's feet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | the sack not said here | the horse's skin | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | intend | past | sack | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sell not said to happen | to-infinitive | sack not said here | the next town | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent which=Theme at town=Asset |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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