The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 224

So he went to the river, which was deep and broad, threw in the sack with the old driver, and called after it, for he thought Little Klaus was inside:

Who acts: driver, river, Little · What happens: go, be, throw, call, think · To what, where: river, 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 (driver, river, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deep	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 deep	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deep	cop
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 broad	cc
12	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deep	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 threw	punct
14	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sack	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sack	det
17	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 driver	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 driver	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 driver	amod
21	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 threw	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 called	cc
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
25	after	after	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 called	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 thought	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 called	advcl
31	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 inside	nsubj
32	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Little	flat
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 inside	cop
34	inside	inside	ADV	_	30 thought	ccomp
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	driver	the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	is	past	the river			deep property	tree rules
3	be		the river not said here				tree rules
4	throw	past	driver not said here	the sack		with the old driver	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in sack=Destination
5	call	participle			after sack		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	past	driver				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	Little			inside 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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