The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 185

Now when Little Klaus again reached home with so much money he sent his boy to Big Klaus to borrow his bushel measure.

Who acts: Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: reach, send, borrow, measure · To what, where: boy, Big, bushel measure

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 Klaus, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 reached	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 reached	mark
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Klaus	amod
4	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reached	nsubj
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 reached	advmod
6	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 reached	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 money	case
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 money	amod
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sent	nsubj
13	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reached	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 boy	nmod:poss
15	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Big	case
17	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl
18	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Big	flat
19	to	to	PART	_	20 borrow	mark
20	borrow	borrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sent	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 measure	nmod:poss
22	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 measure	compound
23	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 borrow	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Little Klaus			now; again	home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	past	Klaus	Klaus's boy	Big		with much money	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to big=Destination
3	borrow	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	Klaus's bushel measure				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
4	measure		Klaus					nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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