The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 184
So Little Klaus got a bushel of money, and the host buried his grandmother as if she had been his own.
Who acts: Little, host, grandmother · What happens: get, bury, be · To what, where: bushel, 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 (Little, host, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Little | flat |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bushel | det |
| 6 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bushel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 buried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 buried | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 host | det |
| 12 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buried | nsubj |
| 13 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 buried | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 own | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 own | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 own | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 own | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 own | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 own | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 buried | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Little | a bushel of money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | the host | bushel's grandmother | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | grandmother | own property | 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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