The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 265
And so he crept into the large sack, which was lying on the back of one of the oxen.
Who acts: Klaus, large sack · What happens: creep, lie · To what, where: large sack, back
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 (Klaus, large sack), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 crept | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sack | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sack | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sack | amod |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lying | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lying | aux |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sack | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 back | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 back | det |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 back | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 oxen | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 oxen | det |
| 20 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | Klaus | the large sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sack=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the large sack | the back of one of the oxen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=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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