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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Big | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 struck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 struck | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 struck | advcl |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bar | det |
| 18 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bar | compound |
| 19 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seizing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seizing | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 23 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Klaus | amod |
| 24 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 horse | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 24 Klaus | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 horse | nummod |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obj |
| 28 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 blow | det:predet |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blow | det |
| 30 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 head | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 head | det |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 fell | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fell | nsubj |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 struck | advcl |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 fell | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 died | cc |
| 39 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 fell | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 spot | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 spot | det |
| 42 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 died | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | I | to your horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Big | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | Big not said here | a iron bar | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | Big | Little Klaus's one horse | on the head; such blow obl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument on head=Patient | |||
| 5 | fall down | past | bar | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die | past | bar not said here | the spot | vn 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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