The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 269

‘I doubt if he will find any cattle!’ said Little Klaus as he drove his own home.

Who acts: I, Klaus, Little Klaus · What happens: doubt, find, say, drive · To what, where: cattle, own home · 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, Klaus, Little 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	_	3 doubt	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 doubt	nsubj
3	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 find	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 find	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 doubt	ccomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 cattle	det
9	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 doubt	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 doubt	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Klaus	amod
14	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 drove	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 drove	nsubj
17	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 home	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 home	amod
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drove	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	doubt	present	I		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find a condition, not said to happen	future	Klaus	any cattle	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drive	past	Klaus	Klaus's own home	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/269/