The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 266
‘Put a stone in, for I am afraid I may not reach the bottom,’ said Big Klaus.
Who acts: I, Big Klaus · What happens: put, be, not reach, say · To what, where: stone, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Big Klaus), 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 | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 Put | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 afraid | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 afraid | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | cop |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Put | advcl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 reach | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 reach | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 reach | advmod |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 afraid | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bottom | det |
| 16 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Klaus | amod |
| 21 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | a stone | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stone=Goal | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not reach | may | I | the bottom | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Big Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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