Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 85
"Farewell," said Little Claus, as he went off with his money and the great chest, in which the sexton lay still concealed.
Who acts: Little Claus, Claus, sexton · What happens: say, go off, lie, conceal · 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, Claus, sexton), 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 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 money | nmod:poss |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chest | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chest | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chest | amod |
| 19 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 money | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lay | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lay | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sexton | det |
| 24 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lay | nsubj |
| 25 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 27 concealed | advmod |
| 27 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lay | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Claus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go off | past | Claus | with Claus's money and the great chest | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the sexton | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | |||||
| 4 | conceal | participle | the sexton not said here | still | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: 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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