The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 127

So he sent a boy to Big Klaus to borrow a bushel measure from him.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: send, borrow · To what, where: boy, Big, bushel measure

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 (Klaus), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Big	case
7	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Big	flat
9	to	to	PART	_	10 borrow	mark
10	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 measure	det
12	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 measure	compound
13	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 borrow	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 borrow	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Klaus	a boy	Big				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to big=Destination
2	borrow	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	a bushel measure				from Klaus	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent measure=Theme from he=Source

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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