The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 250

Thus I have spared myself quite half a mile, and have come much quicker to my sea-cattle!’

Who acts: I · What happens: spare, come · To what, where: myself

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), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 spared	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 spared	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spared	aux
4	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 spared	obl:unmarked
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 half	advmod
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 mile	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mile	det
9	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spared	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 spared	conj
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 quicker	advmod
15	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 come	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 cattle	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cattle	nmod:poss
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cattle	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sea	punct
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quicker	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 spared	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 spared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	present · perfect	I	myself				half mile obl:unmarked; thus property	vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent
2	come	present · perfect	I not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/250/