The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 114

Then he took the chest with one hand and lifted it up a little, as if he were going to throw it into the water.

Who acts: sexton · What happens: take, lift up, go, throw · To what, where: chest, water

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chest	det
5	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hand	nummod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lifted	cc
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 lifted	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lifted	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 going	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 going	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lifted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 throw	mark
22	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 throw	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throw	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	sexton	the chest	then	with one hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme
2	lift up	past	sexton not said here	chest		a little obl:unmarked	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	go a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	sexton				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	throw	to-infinitive	sexton not said here	chest		into the water result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into water=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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