Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 80
"Well," said Little Claus at length, "you have been so good as to give me a night's lodging, I will not refuse you; you shall have the conjuror for a bushel of money, but I will have quite full measure."
Who acts: Little Claus, you · What happens: say, be, give, not refuse, have · To what, where: length, lodging, Little Claus, you, conjuror, full measure · 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 Claus, you), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Claus | amod |
| 7 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 good | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 good | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 good | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 night | case |
| 24 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 refuse | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 refuse | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 refuse | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 refuse | advmod |
| 29 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 good | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 refuse | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 have | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 have | aux |
| 34 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 conjuror | det |
| 36 | conjuror | conjuror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 have | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 bushel | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 bushel | det |
| 39 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 conjuror | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 money | case |
| 41 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bushel | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 have | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 have | cc |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 have | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 have | aux |
| 46 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 have | conj |
| 47 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 48 full | advmod |
| 48 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 measure | amod |
| 49 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 have | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Claus | length | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a night's lodging | Little Claus = claus | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Theme | |||
| 4 | not refuse in a quote | future | Little Claus = claus | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | shall | you | the conjuror | for a bushel of money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjuror=Patient | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | future | Little Claus = claus | full measure | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient |
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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