The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 109

A great new bridge had been built over it, on the middle of which Little Klaus stopped, and said aloud so that the sexton might hear:

Who acts: Little, sexton · What happens: build, stop, say, hear · To what, where: great new bridge, stream · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sexton), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bridge	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bridge	amod
4	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 built	aux:pass
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 built	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 middle	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 stopped	obl
16	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stopped	nsubj
17	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Little	flat
18	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 middle	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stopped	conj
22	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 hear	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sexton	det
26	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hear	nsubj
27	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hear	aux
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · perfect · passive		a great new bridge	stream		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	stop	past	Little			of the middle	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	past	Little not said here			aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear	might	the sexton				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: 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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