Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 97
Then he sent a boy to Great Claus to borrow a bushel measure.
Who acts: Claus · What happens: send, borrow · To what, where: boy, Great, bushel measure
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Great | case |
| 7 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Great | flat |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 borrow | mark |
| 10 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 measure | det |
| 12 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 measure | compound |
| 13 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 borrow | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Claus | a boy | Great | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to great=Destination | ||
| 2 | borrow | to-infinitive | Claus not said here | a bushel measure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=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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