The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 220

‘You will take care of the cattle, won’t you?’ asked the old man, creeping into the sack, which Little Klaus fastened up and then went on with the cows and oxen.

Who acts: You, Little · What happens: take, ask, creep, fasten up, go on · To what, where: care, old man, 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 (You, Little), 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	_	4 take	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	ccomp
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 cattle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cattle	det
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wo	punct
10	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	parataxis
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 wo	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 wo	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 creeping	punct
20	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 asked	advcl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 sack	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sack	det
23	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 creeping	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fastened	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 fastened	obj
26	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fastened	nsubj
27	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Little	flat
28	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sack	acl:relcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 fastened	compound:prt
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 went	advmod
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fastened	conj
33	on	on	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 cows	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cows	det
36	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 went	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 oxen	cc
38	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cows	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	future	You	care				of the cattle	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of cattle=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past			the old man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	creep	gerund				the sack			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sack=Destination
4	fasten up	past	Little	the sack					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	go on	past	Little not said here				then	with the cows and oxen	vn function-105.2.1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/220/