The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 219
‘I will gladly do that,’ said the cattle-driver; and he opened the sack, and Little Klaus struggled out at once.
Who acts: I, cattle driver, driver, Little Klaus · What happens: do, say, open, struggle out · To what, where: that, sack · 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 (I, cattle driver, driver, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 driver | det |
| 11 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driver | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 cattle | punct |
| 13 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 opened | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sack | det |
| 19 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 struggled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 struggled | cc |
| 22 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Klaus | amod |
| 23 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 struggled | nsubj |
| 24 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 opened | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 struggled | compound:prt |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 once | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 struggled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | that | gladly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the cattle driver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open | past | driver | the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | ||||
| 4 | struggle out | past | Little Klaus | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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