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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 15

‘I’ll see to your horses!’ said Big Klaus; and, seizing an iron bar, he struck Little Klaus’ one horse such a blow on the head that it fell down and died on the spot.

Who acts: I, Big, bar · What happens: see, say, seize, strike, fall down, die · To what, where: iron bar, one horse, spot · 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 (I, Big, bar), 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

punctnsubjauxccompcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnsubjflatpunctccpunctadvcldetcompoundobjpunctnsubjconjamodnmod:posscasenummodobjdet:predetdetoblcasedetoblmarknsubjadvcladvmodccconjcasedetoblpunctroot‘PUNCTIPRON’llAUXseeVERBtoADPyourPRONhorsesNOUN!PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBBigPROPNKlausPROPN;PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTseizingVERBanDETironNOUNbarNOUN,PUNCThePRONstruckVERBLittleADJKlausPROPN’PARToneNUMhorseNOUNsuchDETaDETblowNOUNonADPtheDETheadNOUNthatSCONJitPRONfellVERBdownADVandCCONJdiedVERBonADPtheDETspotNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_4 seepunct
2IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 seensubj
3’llwillAUXVerbForm=Fin4 seeaux
4seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 saidccomp
5totoADP_7 horsescase
6youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 horsesnmod:poss
7horseshorseNOUNNumber=Plur4 seeobl
8!!PUNCT_4 seepunct
9’'PUNCT_4 seepunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11BigBigPROPNNumber=Sing10 saidnsubj
12KlausKlausPROPNNumber=Sing11 Bigflat
13;;PUNCT_22 struckpunct
14andandCCONJ_22 struckcc
15,,PUNCT_14 andpunct
16seizingseizeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 struckadvcl
17anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 bardet
18ironironNOUNNumber=Sing19 barcompound
19barbarNOUNNumber=Sing16 seizingobj
20,,PUNCT_16 seizingpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 strucknsubj
22struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidconj
23LittleLittleADJDegree=Pos24 Klausamod
24KlausKlausPROPNNumber=Sing27 horsenmod:poss
25’'sPART_24 Klauscase
26oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card27 horsenummod
27horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing22 struckobj
28suchsuchDETPronType=Ind30 blowdet:predet
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 blowdet
30blowblowNOUNNumber=Sing22 struckobl
31ononADP_33 headcase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 headdet
33headheadNOUNNumber=Sing22 struckobl
34thatthatSCONJ_36 fellmark
35ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 fellnsubj
36fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 struckadvcl
37downdownADV_36 felladvmod
38andandCCONJ_39 diedcc
39dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 fellconj
40ononADP_42 spotcase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 spotdet
42spotspotNOUNNumber=Sing39 diedobl
43..PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seefutureIto your horsesvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2say speech: assertpastBigvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3seizegerundBig not said herea iron barvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme
4strikepastBigLittle Klaus's one horseon the head; such blow oblvn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument on head=Patient
5fall downpastbardown propertyvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6diepastbar not said herethe spotvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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