Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 47

Now Little Claus did not relish the porridge at all, so he trod with his foot on the sack under the table, and the dry skin squeaked quite loud. "

Who acts: Little, sack · What happens: not relish, tread, squeak · To what, where: porridge, all, sack, dry skin

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, sack), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 relish	advmod
2	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 relish	nsubj
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Little	flat
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 relish	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 relish	advmod
6	relish	relish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 porridge	det
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 relish	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 porridge	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 trod	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 trod	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 trod	nsubj
14	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 relish	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 foot	nmod:poss
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trod	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 sack	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sack	det
20	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trod	obl
21	under	under	ADP	_	23 table	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sack	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 skin	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 skin	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 skin	det
27	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 skin	amod
28	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 relish	parataxis
29	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 skin	acl
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 loud	advmod
31	loud	loud	ADV	_	29 squeaked	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 skin	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 relish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not relish	past · do-support	Little	the porridge	all	now		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer porridge=Stimulus
2	tread	past	sack		the sack under the table		with sack's foot	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sack=Trajectory
3	squeak	participle		the dry skin not said here			loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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