The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 19

He had a long way to go, and had to pass through a great dark forest.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: have, go, pass · To what, where: long way, great dark forest

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 pass	mark
12	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	xcomp
13	through	through	ADP	_	17 forest	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 forest	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 forest	amod
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pass	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Klaus	a long way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	go	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	a long way not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Klaus not said here			tree rules
4	pass	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here		a great dark forest	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=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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