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title: He would have liked such a conjuror as Little Claus carried in his s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He would have liked such a conjuror as Little Claus carried in his sack. " Who acts: farmer, Little 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 57

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He would have liked such a conjuror as Little Claus carried in his sack. "

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**Who acts:** farmer, Little Claus · **What happens:** like, carry · **To what, where:** conjuror, sack

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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 (farmer, Little 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:pg27200:71:57
# text = He would have liked such a conjuror as Little Claus carried in his sack. "
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	7	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | would · perfect | farmer | such conjuror |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot conjuror=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | past | Little Claus |  |  | farmer's sack |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in sack=Location |

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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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