The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 196
‘I killed her in order to get a bushel of money.’
Who acts: I · What happens: kill, get · To what, where: grandmother, order, 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 killed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | 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 killed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 killed | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bushel | det |
| 10 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bushel | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | I | grandmother | order | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | a bushel of money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus |
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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