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title: Then how Little Claus would smack his whip over all five horses, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then how Little Claus would smack his whip over all five horses, they were as good as his own on that one day. Who acts: Little Claus, horses. 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 cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 6

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Then how Little Claus would smack his whip over all five horses, they were as good as his own on that one day.

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**Who acts:** Little Claus, horses · **What happens:** smack, be · **To what, where:** whip

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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 Claus, horses), 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:pg27200:71:6
# text = Then how Little Claus would smack his whip over all five horses, they were as good as his own on that one day.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	smack	smack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smack** | would | Little Claus | Claus's whip |  |  | then | over all five horses | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whip=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | horses *= horse* |  |  |  | day | as Claus's own; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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