The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 239

Here are some cattle for you to begin with, and a mile farther down the road there is another herd, which I will give you as a present!

Who acts: cattle, you, I · What happens: be, begin, give · To what, where: herd, you

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 (cattle, you, I), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 cattle	det
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	nsubj
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 begin	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 begin	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 begin	mark
8	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cattle	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 begin	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 herd	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 herd	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mile	det
13	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 farther	obl:unmarked
14	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 herd	advmod
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	obl
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 herd	cop
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 herd	det
21	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 give	obj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 herd	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 present	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 present	det
30	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some cattle			here property	tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	you				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is a	present		another herd		far property	tree rules
4	give	future	I	another herd	you	as a present	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=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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