The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 107

On the other side of the wood was a large deep river.

What happens: be · To what, where: large deep river, other side

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: 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 side	amod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 river	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 side	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 river	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 river	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 river	amod
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 river	amod
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 river	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a large deep river		the other side of the wood			tree rules

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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