The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 261
When the cattle, which were thirsty, caught sight of the water, they ran as quickly as they could to drink.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: be, catch, run, drink, sight · To what, where: water
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 (cattle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cattle | det |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thirsty | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 thirsty | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thirsty | cop |
| 7 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cattle | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sight | punct |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sight | amod |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thirsty | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 quickly | advmod |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 ran | advmod |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 could | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 could | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ran | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 drink | mark |
| 23 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 could | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cattle | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | participle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run | past | the cattle | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | the cattle not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sight | the water | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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