The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 104
Little Klaus gave the farmer his sack with the dry skin, and got instead a good bushelful of money.
Who acts: Little Klaus · What happens: give, get · To what, where: sack, farmer
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Klaus), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Klaus | amod |
| 2 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sack | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 skin | amod |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 18 bushelful | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bushelful | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bushelful | amod |
| 18 | bushelful | bushelful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 money | case |
| 20 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bushelful | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Little Klaus | Klaus's sack | the farmer | with the dry skin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient sack=Theme | ||
| 2 | get | past | instead a good bushelful of money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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