The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 207

He had to go a long way before he came to the river, and Little Klaus was not very light.

Who acts: Klaus, Little Klaus · What happens: have, go, come, not be · To what, where: long way, river

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, Little 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	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 came	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 light	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 light	cc
16	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Klaus	amod
17	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 light	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 light	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 light	advmod
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 light	advmod
21	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Klaus				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	a long way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	Klaus		the river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
4	not is	past	Little Klaus			light property	tree rules

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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