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title: Now Little Claus did not relish the porridge at all, so he trod with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Little Claus did not relish the porridge at all, so he trod with his foot on the sack under the table, and the dry skin squeaked quite loud. " Who acts: Little, sack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 47

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Now Little Claus did not relish the porridge at all, so he trod with his foot on the sack under the table, and the dry skin squeaked quite loud. "

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**Who acts:** Little, sack · **What happens:** not relish, tread, squeak · **To what, where:** porridge, all, sack, dry skin

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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 (Little, sack), 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:pg27200:71:47
# text = Now Little Claus did not relish the porridge at all, so he trod with his foot on the sack under the table, and the dry skin squeaked quite loud. "
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	relish	relish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
29	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **relish** | past · do-support | Little | the porridge |  | all | now |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer porridge=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tread** | past | sack |  |  | the sack under the table |  | with sack's foot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sack=Trajectory |
| 3 | **squeak** | participle |  | the dry skin *not said here* |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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