The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 2
Both were called Klaus, but one owned four horses and the other only one.
Who acts: one · What happens: call, own · To what, where: Both, four horses · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one), 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 owned | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 owned | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 owned | nsubj |
| 8 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | nummod |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 owned | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 horses | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Both | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | own | past | one | four horses | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme |
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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