Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 98

"What can he want it for?" thought Great Claus; so he smeared the bottom of the measure with tar, that some of whatever was put into it might stick there and remain.

Who acts: Claus, Great, measure · What happens: want, think, smear, put, stick, remain · To what, where: measure, bottom, some · 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 (Claus, Great, measure), 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 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 want	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 thought	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	5 want	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Great	Great	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thought	obj
12	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Great	flat
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 smeared	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 smeared	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 smeared	nsubj
16	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thought	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bottom	det
18	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smeared	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 measure	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 measure	det
21	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bottom	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 tar	case
23	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 measure	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 put	mark
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 put	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 whatever	case
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 some	nmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 put	aux:pass
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 smeared	conj
31	into	into	SCONJ	_	34 stick	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stick	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 stick	aux
34	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 put	advcl
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 stick	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 remain	cc
37	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 stick	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want in a quote	can	Claus	measure		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme it=Attribute
2	think speech: other	past	Great			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	smear	past	Claus	the bottom of the measure with tar		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme
4	put	past · passive		some		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
5	stick	might	measure		there	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	remain	infinitive	measure not said here			vn exist-47.1 «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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