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title: Great Claus put down the sack close to the church-door, and thought… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Great Claus put down the sack close to the church-door, and thought he might as well go in and hear a psalm before he went any farther. Who acts: Great Claus, 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 161

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Great Claus put down the sack close to the church-door, and thought he might as well go in and hear a psalm before he went any farther.

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**Who acts:** Great Claus, Claus · **What happens:** put down, think, go in, hear, go · **To what, where:** sack, psalm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Great Claus, Claus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:71:161
# text = Great Claus put down the sack close to the church-door, and thought he might as well go in and hear a psalm before he went any farther.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	20	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
29	any	any	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | Great Claus | the sack |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sack=Goal |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Great Claus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go in** | might | Claus |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | Claus *not said here* | a psalm |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer psalm=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | past | Claus |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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