The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 243

What lovely people there were, and what fine cattle were grazing in the ditches and dykes!’

Who acts: lovely people, fine cattle · What happens: be, graze · To what, where: ditches

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 (lovely people, fine cattle), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 were	obj
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 were	expl
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grazing	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grazing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grazing	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 grazing	obj
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cattle	amod
10	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grazing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grazing	aux
12	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 ditches	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ditches	det
15	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grazing	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dykes	cc
17	dykes	dyke	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ditches	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 grazing	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 grazing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	lovely people			there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	graze	past · progressive	fine cattle			the ditches and dykes			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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