The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 159

Then he dressed his grandmother in her Sunday clothes, borrowed a horse from his neighbour, harnessed the cart to it, sat his grandmother on the back seat so that she could not fall out when he drove, and away they went.

Who acts: Klaus, grandmother, horses · What happens: dress, borrow, harness, sit, not fall out, drive · To what, where: grandmother, Sunday clothes, horse, neighbour, cart, back seat

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, grandmother, horses), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dressed	nsubj
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmother	nmod:poss
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 clothes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 clothes	nmod:poss
8	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clothes	compound
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 dressed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 borrowed	punct
11	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 borrowed	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 neighbour	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neighbour	nmod:poss
16	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 borrowed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 harnessed	punct
18	harnessed	harness	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cart	det
20	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harnessed	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 harnessed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grandmother	nmod:poss
26	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 seat	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 seat	det
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 seat	compound
30	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sat	obl
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 fall	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fall	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 fall	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 fall	advmod
36	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sat	advcl
37	out	out	ADP	_	36 fall	compound:prt
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 drove	advmod
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 drove	nsubj
40	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fall	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 went	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 went	cc
43	away	away	ADV	_	45 went	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dressed	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	past	Klaus	Klaus's grandmother		grandmother's Sunday clothes	then		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient
2	borrow	past	Klaus not said here	a horse		Klaus's neighbour			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from neighbour=Source
3	harness	past	Klaus not said here	the cart	cart				vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient to it=Co-Patient
4	sit	past	Klaus not said here	Klaus's grandmother		the back seat			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme on seat=Location
5	not fall out	could	grandmother						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drive	past	Klaus						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	go	past	horses = horse					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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