The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 161
Little Klaus got down, and went in to get something to drink.
Who acts: Little Klaus · What happens: get down, go in, get, drink · To what, where: something
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 (Little 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Klaus | amod |
| 2 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | advcl |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 drink | mark |
| 13 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get down | past | Little Klaus | down property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go in | past | Little Klaus not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Little Klaus not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | Little Klaus not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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