The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 227
Then he went home; but when he came to the cross-roads, there he met Little Klaus, who was driving his cattle.
Who acts: Little · What happens: go, come, meet, drive · To what, where: cross-roads, Little Klaus, cattle
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 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 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 met | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 met | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 met | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 cross-roads | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cross-roads | det |
| 12 | cross-roads | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 met | expl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 17 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Klaus | amod |
| 18 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driving | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 driving | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driving | aux |
| 22 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 met | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driving | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Little | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | Little | the cross-roads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cross-road=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | Little | Little Klaus | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | drive | past · progressive | Little's cattle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=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.
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