The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 110
‘Now, what am I to do with this stupid chest?
Who acts: I · What happens: do
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 do | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 do | obj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 chest | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 chest | det |
| 11 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chest | amod |
| 12 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | now | with this stupid chest | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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