The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 18

Then he flayed the skin off his horse, dried it, and put it in a sack, which he threw over his shoulder, and went into the town to sell it.

Who acts: Klaus, sack · What happens: flay, dry, put, throw, go, sell · To what, where: skin, sack, shoulder, town

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, sack), 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 flayed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flayed	nsubj
3	flayed	flay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flayed	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 horse	nmod:poss
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dried	punct
10	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flayed	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 dried	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sack	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sack	det
18	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 threw	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 threw	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threw	nsubj
22	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sack	acl:relcl
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulder	nmod:poss
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 threw	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flayed	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 town	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sell	mark
33	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 went	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sell	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flay	past	Klaus	the skin		then	off Klaus's horse	tree rules
2	dry	past	Klaus not said here	skin				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
3	put	infinitive	Klaus not said here	skin	a sack			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in sack=Destination
4	throw	past	a sack		Klaus's shoulder			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination
5	go	past	Klaus not said here		the town			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
6	sell	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	skin				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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