The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 212

But he could not undo the string.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: not undo · To what, where: string

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 undo	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 undo	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 undo	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 undo	advmod
5	undo	undo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 string	det
7	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 undo	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 undo	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not undo	could	Klaus	the string					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient

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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