Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 57
He would have liked such a conjuror as Little Claus carried in his sack. "
Who acts: farmer, Little Claus · What happens: like, carry · To what, where: conjuror, sack
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 liked | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 liked | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 liked | aux |
| 4 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 conjuror | det:predet |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 conjuror | det |
| 7 | conjuror | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 liked | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 carried | mark |
| 9 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Claus | amod |
| 10 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 liked | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sack | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sack | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | would · perfect | farmer | such conjuror | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot conjuror=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Little Claus | farmer's sack | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sack=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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