Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 83
So Little Claus gave the farmer the sack containing the dried horse's skin, and received in exchange a bushel of money--full measure.
Who acts: Little Claus, sack · What happens: give, contain, dry, receive · To what, where: sack, farmer, skin, exchange
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, sack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Claus | amod |
| 3 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farmer | det |
| 6 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sack | det |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sack | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 containing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 received | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 received | cc |
| 17 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gave | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 exchange | case |
| 19 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 received | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bushel | det |
| 21 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exchange | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bushel | nmod |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 measure | punct |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 measure | amod |
| 26 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exchange | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Little Claus | the sack | the farmer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | the sack not said here | the dried horse's skin | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | receive | participle | Little Claus not said here | exchange and full measure | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in exchange=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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