Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 69

"Stop, I must ask the conjuror," said Little Claus; so he trod on the bag, and stooped his ear down to listen.

Who acts: Little, conjuror · What happens: stop, ask, say, tread, stoop down, listen · To what, where: conjuror, bag, ear · 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 (Little, conjuror), 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	_	2 Stop	punct
2	Stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Stop	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 conjuror	det
8	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ask	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stop	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	nsubj
13	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Little	flat
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 trod	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 trod	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 trod	nsubj
17	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 bag	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bag	det
20	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trod	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stooped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stooped	cc
23	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trod	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ear	nmod:poss
25	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stooped	obj
26	down	down	ADV	_	23 stooped	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 listen	mark
28	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stooped	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	must	Little	the conjuror			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent conjuror=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	Little				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tread	past	conjuror		the bag		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bag=Trajectory
5	stoop down	past	conjuror not said here	conjuror's ear		down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme
6	listen	to-infinitive	conjuror not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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