Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 84
The farmer also gave him a wheelbarrow on which to carry away the chest and the gold.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: give, carry away · To what, where: wheelbarrow, sack, chest
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 (farmer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wheelbarrow | det |
| 7 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 carry | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 carry | mark |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wheelbarrow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADP | _ | 11 carry | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chest | det |
| 14 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carry | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gold | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gold | det |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chest | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the farmer | a wheelbarrow | sack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry away | to-infinitive | the farmer not said here | the chest and the gold | a wheelbarrow | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme |
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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