Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 96
How vexed Great Claus will be when he finds out how rich I have become all through my one horse; but I shall not tell him exactly how it all happened."
Who acts: vexed Great Claus, I, it · What happens: vex, be, become, not tell, happen · To what, where: one horse, Claus · 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 (vexed Great Claus, I, it), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 vexed | advmod |
| 2 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Claus | amod |
| 3 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Claus | flat |
| 4 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 finds | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 finds | cop |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 finds | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 finds | compound:prt |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rich | advmod |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 finds | xcomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 rich | acl:relcl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 horse | advmod |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 horse | nummod |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 become | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 tell | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 tell | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 tell | advmod |
| 26 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 finds | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 tell | iobj |
| 28 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 32 happened | advmod |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 happened | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 happened | nsubj |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 32 happened | advmod |
| 32 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 tell | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | future | vexed Great Claus | find, rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | I | my one horse | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | shall | I | Claus | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past | it | all, exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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