Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 5

Through the whole week, Little Claus was obliged to plough for Great Claus, and lend him his one horse; and once a week, on a Sunday, Great Claus lent him all his four horses.

Who acts: Great Claus · What happens: oblige, plough, lend · To what, where: Little, one horse, Claus, four horses, other

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 (Great 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	Through	through	ADP	_	4 week	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 week	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 week	amod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 obliged	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 week	punct
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 obliged	nsubj:pass
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 obliged	aux:pass
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 plough	mark
11	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 obliged	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 Claus	case
13	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Claus	flat
14	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 plough	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lend	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lend	cc
17	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 plough	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lend	obj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 horse	nmod:poss
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 horse	nummod
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lend	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 once	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 once	cc
24	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 obliged	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 week	det
26	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 once	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Sunday	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 Sunday	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Sunday	det
30	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 obliged	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lent	punct
32	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Claus	flat
33	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 lent	nsubj
34	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 Sunday	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lent	obj
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 horses	det:predet
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 horses	nmod:poss
38	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 horses	nummod
39	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 lent	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		Little		sunday; week	once property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	plough	to-infinitive					for Great Claus	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	lend	infinitive		Claus's one horse	Claus			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme
4	lend	past	Great Claus	Claus's four horses	other			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme

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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