The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 26
Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a little out-house, covered with a flat thatched roof.
Who acts: haystack, flat · What happens: stand, house, cover, thatch · To what, where: large haystack, little out house, roof
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 (haystack, flat), 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 haystack | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 haystack | amod |
| 6 | haystack | haystack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 house | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 house | cc |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 house | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 house | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 it | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 16 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 out | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 covered | punct |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 house | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 flat | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 flat | det |
| 23 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 covered | obl |
| 24 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 flat | acl |
| 25 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thatched | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a large haystack | close property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer haystack=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | house | haystack | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a little out house not said here | with a flat | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | thatch | participle | a flat not said here | roof | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent roof=Destination |
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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