The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 27

‘I can lie down there,’ thought Little Klaus, looking at the roof; ‘it will make a splendid bed, if only the stork won’t fly down and bite my legs.’

Who acts: I, roof, stork · What happens: lie down, think, look, make, not fly down, bite · To what, where: Little, splendid bed, legs · 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, roof, stork), 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	_	4 lie	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lie	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lie	aux
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 lie	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lie	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lie	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thought	obj
11	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Little	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 thought	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 roof	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 roof	det
16	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 make	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 make	aux
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bed	det
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bed	amod
24	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fly	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 fly	mark
27	only	only	ADV	_	29 stork	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 stork	det
29	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fly	nsubj
30	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fly	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 fly	advmod
32	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 make	conj
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 fly	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bite	cc
35	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fly	conj
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 legs	nmod:poss
37	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bite	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	can	I		there	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past		Little			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent little=Attribute clause=Theme
3	look	gerund				at the roof	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at roof=Theme
4	make	future	roof	a splendid bed			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bed=Product
5	not fly down a condition, not said to happen	future	the stork				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bite	infinitive	the stork not said here	my legs			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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