The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 248

But I know what windings the river makes, now here, now there, so that it is a long way round.

Who acts: I, river · What happens: know, make, be · To what, where: windings, long way · 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.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:2862): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 know	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 windings	det
5	windings	winding	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 makes	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 makes	nsubj
8	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 here	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 here	advmod
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 makes	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 there	punct
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 here	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 way	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	_	22 way	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 way	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	advcl
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	present	the river	what windings	here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset winding=Product
3	is a	present	river	a long way		round property	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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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