The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 128

‘Now what can he want with it?’ thought Big Klaus; and he smeared some tar at the bottom, so that of whatever was measured a little should remain in it.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: want, think, smear, measure, remain · To what, where: Big Klaus, tar, bottom, whatever, measure · Speech: someone speaks here

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 want	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Klaus	amod
13	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 thought	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 smeared	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 smeared	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 smeared	nsubj
17	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	parataxis
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 tar	det
19	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smeared	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 bottom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bottom	det
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smeared	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 remain	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	33 remain	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 measured	mark
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 whatever	case
27	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 measured	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 measured	aux:pass
29	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 remain	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 little	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 measured	obl:unmarked
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 remain	aux
33	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 smeared	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 remain	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	can	Klaus			now	with measure	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	think speech: other	past		Big Klaus				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent klaus=Attribute clause=Theme
3	smear	past	Klaus	some tar	the bottom			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent tar=Theme at bottom=Destination
4	measure	past · passive		whatever			a little obl:unmarked	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
5	remain	should	Klaus not said here		measure			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location

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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