The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 221

Soon after Big Klaus came out of the church, and taking up the sack on his shoulders it seemed to him as if it had become lighter; for the old cattle-driver was not half as heavy as Little Klaus.

Who acts: Big Klaus, it, sack, old cattle driver · What happens: come out, take up, seem, become, not be · To what, where: church, sack, shoulders, Klaus

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, it, sack, old cattle driver), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Klaus	amod
4	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 church	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 church	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 church	det
9	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
12	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 seemed	csubj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 taking	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 taking	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 shoulders	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shoulders	nmod:poss
18	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 taking	obl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	obl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 become	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 become	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 become	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 become	aux
27	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 seemed	xcomp
28	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 become	xcomp
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 heavy	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 half	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 driver	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 driver	amod
33	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 driver	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 cattle	punct
35	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 half	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 half	cop
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 half	advmod
38	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	40 heavy	compound
39	as	as	ADV	_	40 heavy	advmod
40	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
41	as	as	ADP	_	43 Klaus	case
42	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Klaus	amod
43	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 heavy	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	Big Klaus	the church			soon property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result
2	take up	gerund		the sack		Klaus's shoulders		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on shoulder=Destination
3	seem	past	it		Klaus			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	become a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	sack				light property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	not is	past	the old cattle driver				half property	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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