The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 209

Big Klaus put down the sack with Little Klaus in it by the church-door, and thought that he might as well go in and hear a psalm before going on farther.

Who acts: Big Klaus, Klaus · What happens: put down, think, go in, hear, go · To what, where: sack, psalm · 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 (Big Klaus, 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	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Klaus	amod
2	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sack	det
6	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Klaus	case
8	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Klaus	amod
9	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sack	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	16 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
14	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 door	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 church	punct
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
23	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	25 go	cc
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 as	fixed
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hear	cc
28	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 psalm	det
30	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hear	obj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 going	mark
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 hear	advcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 farther	case
34	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 going	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put down	past	Big Klaus	the sack	sack	with Little Klaus; by the church door	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in it=Destination
2	think speech: other	past					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go in	might	Klaus				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	infinitive	Klaus not said here	a psalm			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer psalm=Stimulus
5	go	gerund	Klaus not said here			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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