The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 240
’’ Now I saw that the river was a great high-road for the sea-people.
Who acts: I, river · What happens: see, be · To what, where: great high road · 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, river), 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 | ’’ | '' | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 road | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 road | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 road | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 road | amod |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 road | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sea | punct |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 road | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the river | a great high road | for the sea people | 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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