The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 28
For a live stork was standing on the roof, where it had its nest.
Who acts: roof · What happens: stand, have · To what, where: roof, nest
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 (roof), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 stork | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stork | det |
| 3 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stork | amod |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | aux |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roof | det |
| 9 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 had | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | conj |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the roof | for a live stork | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | roof | roof's nest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/28/