The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 112

I shall only be tired, dragging it along; I will throw it into the river.

Who acts: I · What happens: be, drag, throw · To what, where: bridge, river

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tired	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tired	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 tired	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 tired	cop
5	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dragging	punct
7	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 tired	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dragging	obj
9	along	along	ADV	_	7 dragging	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 throw	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 throw	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 throw	aux
13	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tired	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 throw	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throw	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	shall	I		tired property	tree rules
2	drag	gerund	I not said here	bridge	along property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	throw	future	I	bridge	into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result

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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