The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 252
‘Do you think I should also get some cattle if I went to the bottom of the river?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: think, get, go · To what, where: cattle, bottom · 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 (you, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cattle | det |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bottom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 river | det |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bottom | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | should | I | some cattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | I | the bottom of the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location |
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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