The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 237

I fell on this, and immediately the sack opened; the loveliest maiden in snow-white garments, with a green garland round her wet hair, took me by the hand, and said!

Who acts: I, sack · What happens: fall, open, take, say · To what, where: this, me · 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, sack), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 fell	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 opened	cc
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	10 opened	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sack	det
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 maiden	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
13	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 maiden	amod
14	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 garments	case
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 garments	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 snow	punct
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 garments	amod
19	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 maiden	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 garland	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 garland	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 garland	det
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 garland	amod
24	garland	garland	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl
25	round	round	ADP	_	28 hair	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
27	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hair	amod
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 garland	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 took	iobj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 hand	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hand	det
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	I		this	with a green garland round water's wet hair	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on this=Location
2	open	past	the sack			immediately property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past		me		by the hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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