The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 204
First I killed my horses, then my grandmother!
Who acts: I · What happens: kill · To what, where: horses
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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 killed | advmod |
| 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 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horses | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grandmother | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 grandmother | advmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horses | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | I | my horses and my grandmother | first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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