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title: Then he sent a boy to Great Claus to borrow a bushel measure. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sent a boy to Great Claus to borrow a bushel measure. Who acts: 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 97

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Then he sent a boy to Great Claus to borrow a bushel measure.

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**Who acts:** Claus · **What happens:** send, borrow · **To what, where:** boy, Great, bushel measure

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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 (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:pg27200:71:97
# text = Then he sent a boy to Great Claus to borrow a bushel measure.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Great	Great	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | Claus | a boy | Great |  | then |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to great=Destination |
| 2 | **borrow** | to-infinitive | Claus *not said here* | a bushel measure |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme |

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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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