The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 263

‘They want to go to the bottom again!’

Who acts: people · What happens: want, go · To what, where: bottom

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 (people), 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	_	3 want	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	people						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			the bottom	again		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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