The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 192
‘I sold her, and got a bushel of money for her.’
Who acts: I · What happens: sell, get · To what, where: grandmother, bushel
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 (I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sold | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sold | nsubj |
| 3 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sold | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sold | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bushel | det |
| 9 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bushel | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sold | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | I | grandmother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | I not said here | a bushel of money | for grandmother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bushel=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
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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