Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 9

They looked at Little Claus ploughing with his five horses, and he was so proud that he smacked his whip, and said, "Gee-up, my five horses."

Who acts: bells, Claus · What happens: look, plough, be, smack, say · To what, where: whip · 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 (bells, Claus), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 Little	case
4	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	obl
5	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Little	flat
6	ploughing	plough	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 horses	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 horses	nummod
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ploughing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 proud	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 proud	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 proud	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 proud	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 proud	advmod
16	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 smacked	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 smacked	nsubj
19	smacked	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 proud	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 whip	nmod:poss
21	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 smacked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
27	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 up	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
29	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 horses	punct
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 horses	nmod:poss
32	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 horses	nummod
33	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 up	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	bells = bell		at Little	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at little=Theme
2	plough	gerund	bells = bell not said here		with Claus's five horses	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Claus		proud property	tree rules
4	smack	past	Claus	Claus's whip		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	bells = bell not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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