The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 189

So he went himself to Little Klaus with the measure.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: go · To what, where: Klaus, Little Klaus

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), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 went	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Klaus	case
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Klaus	amod
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 measure	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 measure	det
10	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Klaus	Klaus		Little Klaus		with the measure	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to klaus=Initial_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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