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title: Through the whole week, Little Claus was obliged to plough for Great… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the whole week, Little Claus was obliged to plough for Great Claus, and lend him his one horse; and once a week, on a Sunday, Great Claus lent him all his four horses. Who acts: Great Claus. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 5

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Through the whole week, Little Claus was obliged to plough for Great Claus, and lend him his one horse; and once a week, on a Sunday, Great Claus lent him all his four horses.

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**Who acts:** Great Claus · **What happens:** oblige, plough, lend · **To what, where:** Little, one horse, Claus, four horses, other

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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), 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:pg27200:71:5
# text = Through the whole week, Little Claus was obliged to plough for Great Claus, and lend him his one horse; and once a week, on a Sunday, Great Claus lent him all his four horses.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	plough	plough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
14	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
33	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lent	lend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Little |  |  | sunday; week | once *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **plough** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for Great Claus | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lend** | infinitive |  | Claus's one horse | Claus |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 4 | **lend** | past | Great Claus | Claus's four horses | other |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=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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