The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 215
These pushed against the sack so that it was overturned.
What happens: push, overturn · To what, where: These, sack
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: 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 sack | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sack | det |
| 5 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushed | obl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 overturned | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overturned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overturned | aux:pass |
| 10 | overturned | overturn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pushed | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | participle · passive | These | the sack | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme against sack=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | overturn | past · passive | sack | 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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