The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 119

I must throw him quickly into the water to drown him!’

Who acts: I · What happens: throw, drown · To what, where: Klaus, 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 (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	3 throw	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 throw	aux
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throw	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 throw	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throw	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 drown	mark
10	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 throw	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 drown	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	must	I	Klaus				into the water result; quickly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into water=Result
2	drown	to-infinitive	I not said here	Klaus					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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