The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 168
She is sitting outside in the cart; I cannot bring her in.
Who acts: grandmother, I · What happens: sit, not bring in · To what, where: cart, grandmother
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 (grandmother, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sitting | aux |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 sitting | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cart | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cart | det |
| 7 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 bring | advmod |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sitting | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bring | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | grandmother | the cart | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cart=Location | |||
| 2 | not bring in | can | I | grandmother | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Asset |
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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