The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 129
And this is just what happened; for when he got his measure back, three new silver five-shilling pieces were sticking to it.
Who acts: this, Klaus, three new silver · What happens: be, happen, get back, stick, measure · To what, where: 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 (this, Klaus, three new silver), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 happened | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 got | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 got | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 got | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 measure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 got | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sticking | punct |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 silver | nummod |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 silver | amod |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sticking | nsubj |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 silver | nmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 five | punct |
| 21 | shilling | shilling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pieces | compound |
| 22 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sticking | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sticking | aux |
| 24 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 got | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sticking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | get back | past | Klaus | Klaus's measure | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stick | past · progressive | three new silver five | measure | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | measure | Klaus | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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