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title: So Little Claus gave the farmer the sack containing the dried horse'… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So Little Claus gave the farmer the sack containing the dried horse's skin, and received in exchange a bushel of money--full measure. Who acts: Little Claus, sack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 83

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So Little Claus gave the farmer the sack containing the dried horse's skin, and received in exchange a bushel of money--full measure.

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**Who acts:** Little Claus, sack · **What happens:** give, contain, dry, receive · **To what, where:** sack, farmer, skin, exchange

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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, 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:pg27200:71:83
# text = So Little Claus gave the farmer the sack containing the dried horse's skin, and received in exchange a bushel of money--full measure.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Little Claus | the sack | the farmer |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient sack=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | the sack *not said here* | the dried horse's skin |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |
| 3 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **receive** | participle | Little Claus *not said here* |  |  | exchange and full measure |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in exchange=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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