Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 60
"Oh, yes!" replied Little Claus, "my conjuror can do anything I ask him,--can you not?" he asked, treading at the same time on the sack till it squeaked. "
Who acts: conjuror, I, nest · What happens: reply, do, ask, tread, squeak · To what, where: Little, anything, conjuror · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (conjuror, I, nest), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Little | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 conjuror | nmod:poss |
| 13 | conjuror | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 anything | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 can | punct |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 can | punct |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 can | nsubj |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 can | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 can | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 asked | nsubj |
| 28 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 treading | punct |
| 30 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 asked | advcl |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 treading | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 sack | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sack | det |
| 37 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 time | nmod |
| 38 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 40 squeaked | mark |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 squeaked | nsubj |
| 40 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 treading | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Little | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | my conjuror | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | I | conjuror | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | conjuror | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tread | gerund | conjuror not said here | time | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | squeak | past | nest | 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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