The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 249

Therefore it makes it much shorter if one comes on the land and drives across the field to the river.

Who acts: river, one · What happens: make, come, drive · To what, where: way, land, field

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 (river, one), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 makes	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 shorter	advmod
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
8	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shorter	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 land	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 land	det
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drives	cc
14	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comes	conj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 field	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 field	det
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drives	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 river	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 river	det
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drives	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	river	way		short, therefore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product
2	come a condition, not said to happen	present	one		the land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location
3	drive	present	one not said here		the field	to the river	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across field=Trajectory

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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