The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 163
He was a very worthy but hot-tempered man.
Who acts: Klaus · What happens: be, temper · To what, where: man
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 worthy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worthy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 worthy | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 worthy | advmod |
| 5 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 tempered | cc |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tempered | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hot | punct |
| 9 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 worthy | conj |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tempered | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Klaus | worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | temper | participle | Klaus not said here | man | tree rules |
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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