--- title: Dear Little Claus, I will give you a bushel of money; I will bury yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Dear Little Claus, I will give you a bushel of money; I will bury your grandmother as if she were my own; only keep silent, or else they will cut off my head, and that would be disagreeable." Who acts: Dear Little Claus, I, grandmother, florins. 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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 (Dear Little Claus, I, grandmother, florins), 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:pg27200:71:136 # text = Dear Little Claus, I will give you a bushel of money; I will bury your grandmother as if she were my own; only keep silent, or else they will cut off my head, and that would be disagreeable." 1 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Claus Claus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bushel bushel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 28 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 else else ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 35 off off ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 disagreeable disagreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | future | Dear Little Claus | a bushel of money | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushel=Theme | | 2 | **bury** | future | I | your grandmother | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | grandmother | | | | | own *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | Dear Little Claus *not said here* | | | | | silent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cut off** | future | florins *= florin* | my head | | | | else *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | would | that | | | | | disagreeable *property* | tree rules | 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 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/137/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)