Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 6

Then how Little Claus would smack his whip over all five horses, they were as good as his own on that one day.

Who acts: Little Claus, horses · What happens: smack, be · To what, where: whip

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 Claus, horses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 smack	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 Little	advmod
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Claus	amod
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smack	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 smack	aux
6	smack	smack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 whip	nmod:poss
8	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smack	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 horses	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 horses	det
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 horses	nummod
12	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smack	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 good	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 good	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smack	parataxis
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 own	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 good	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 day	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 day	det
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 day	nummod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 good	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 smack	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smack	would	Little Claus	Claus's whip			then	over all five horses	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient
2	is	past	horses = horse				day	as Claus's own; good property	tree rules

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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