--- title: "Well," said Little Claus at length, "you have been so good as to gi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Well," said Little Claus at length, "you have been so good as to give me a night's lodging, I will not refuse you; you shall have the conjuror for a bushel of money, but I will have quite full measure." Who acts: Little Claus, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:71:80 # text = "Well," said Little Claus at length, "you have been so good as to give me a night's lodging, I will not refuse you; you shall have the conjuror for a bushel of money, but I will have quite full measure." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Claus Claus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 lodging lodging NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 refuse refuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 conjuror conjuror NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bushel bushel NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 47 quite quite ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 measure measure NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Claus | | | length | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a night's lodging | Little Claus *= claus* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lodging=Theme | | 4 | **not** **refuse** *in a quote* | future | Little Claus *= claus* | you | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | the conjuror | | | | for a bushel of money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjuror=Patient | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | future | Little Claus *= claus* | full measure | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/81/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)