Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 94
The sexton crept out, pushed the empty chest into the water, and went to his house, then he measured out a whole bushel full of gold for Little Claus, who had already received one from the farmer, so that now he had a barrow full.
Who acts: sexton, Claus, whole bushel · What happens: creep out, push, go, measure out, receive, have · To what, where: empty chest, water, house, whole bushel, one, barrow
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 (sexton, Claus, whole bushel), 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 sexton | det |
| 2 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 crept | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pushed | punct |
| 6 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chest | det |
| 8 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chest | amod |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 measured | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 measured | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 measured | nsubj |
| 22 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 measured | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bushel | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bushel | amod |
| 26 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 measured | obj |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bushel | amod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 gold | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 full | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 Little | case |
| 31 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bushel | nmod |
| 32 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Little | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 received | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 received | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 received | aux |
| 36 | already | already | ADV | _ | 37 received | advmod |
| 37 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 bushel | acl |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 received | obj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 farmer | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 farmer | det |
| 41 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 received | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 had | punct |
| 43 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 had | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 so | fixed |
| 45 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 had | advmod |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 had | nsubj |
| 47 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 measured | conj |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 barrow | det |
| 49 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 had | obj |
| 50 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 barrow | amod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | the sexton | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | push | past | the sexton not said here | the empty chest | the water | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme into water=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | the sexton not said here | water's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | measure out | past | Claus | a whole bushel | then | for Little | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme bushel=Value | ||
| 5 | receive | past · perfect | a whole bushel | one | from the farmer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from farmer=Source | |||
| 6 | have | past | Claus | a barrow | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barrow=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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