The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 171

‘Oh yes, certainly I will!’ said the host; and, pouring out a large glass of mead, he took it out to the dead grandmother, who was sitting upright in the cart.

Who acts: Klaus, dead grandmother · What happens: say, pour out, take out, sit · To what, where: host, large glass, glass, cart · 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 (Klaus, dead grandmother), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 will	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 will	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Oh	advcl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 host	det
12	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 pouring	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pouring	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pouring	punct
16	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 said	advcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 pouring	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 glass	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glass	amod
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pouring	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 mead	case
22	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glass	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	obj
27	out	out	ADP	_	25 took	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 grandmother	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grandmother	det
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grandmother	amod
31	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sitting	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 sitting	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sitting	aux
35	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 grandmother	acl
36	upright	upright	ADV	_	35 sitting	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 cart	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cart	det
39	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sitting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the host			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent host=Topic
2	pour out	gerund		a large glass of mead			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient
3	take out	past	Klaus	glass		to the dead grandmother	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	sit	past · progressive	the dead grandmother		the cart	upright property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cart=Location

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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