--- title: The farmer also gave him a wheelbarrow on which to carry away the ch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The farmer also gave him a wheelbarrow on which to carry away the chest and the gold. Who acts: farmer. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/84/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/) / 84 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 84 The farmer also gave him a wheelbarrow on which to carry away the chest and the gold. **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** give, carry away · **To what, where:** wheelbarrow, sack, chest 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), 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:pg27200:71:84 # text = The farmer also gave him a wheelbarrow on which to carry away the chest and the gold. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wheelbarrow wheelbarrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 away away ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | the farmer | a wheelbarrow | sack | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme | | 2 | **carry away** | to-infinitive | the farmer *not said here* | the chest and the gold | | a wheelbarrow | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/85/) - ↑ back to [Little Claus and Big Claus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/)