--- title: "Ah," said he, as he came to his house; "Little Claus shall pay me f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Ah," said he, as he came to his house; "Little Claus shall pay me for this; I will beat him to death." Who acts: Claus, Little Claus. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/112/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/) / 112 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 112 "Ah," said he, as he came to his house; "Little Claus shall pay me for this; I will beat him to death." **Who acts:** Claus, Little Claus · **What happens:** say, come, pay, beat · **To what, where:** house, Claus, death · **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, Little 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:71:112 # text = "Ah," said he, as he came to his house; "Little Claus shall pay me for this; I will beat him to death." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Claus Claus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Claus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | past | Claus | | | Claus's house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **pay** *in a quote* | shall | Little Claus | | Claus | | | for this | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Asset for this=Theme | | 4 | **beat** *in a quote* | future | Claus | Claus | death | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/113/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)