The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 255

‘But I can’t carry you in a sack to the river; you are too heavy for me!

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not carry, be · To what, where: you, sack

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, you), 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	_	6 carry	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 carry	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 carry	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 carry	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 carry	advmod
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 sack	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sack	det
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 river	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sack	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 heavy	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 heavy	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 heavy	cop
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 heavy	advmod
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 carry	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 heavy	obl
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	can	I	you		a sack to the river			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Value in sack=Location
2	is	present	you					for me; heavy 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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