--- title: So he laid hold of Little Claus round the body, and pushed him into… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: So he laid hold of Little Claus round the body, and pushed him into the sack, which he took on his shoulders, saying, "Now I'm going to drown you in the river." Who acts: Claus, sack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Claus, sack), 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:pg27200:71:158 # text = So he laid hold of Little Claus round the body, and pushed him into the sack, which he took on his shoulders, saying, "Now I'm going to drown you in the river." 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Claus Claus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 round round ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 on on ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 drown drown VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | Claus | hold of Little Claus | | | | round the body | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | | 2 | **push** | past | Claus *not said here* | Claus | | the sack | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into sack=Destination | | 3 | **take on** | past | the sack | Claus's shoulders | | | | | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Claus *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Claus | | | | now | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **drown** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Claus *not said here* | you | | the river | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 7 | **hold** | | | Little Claus | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/159/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)