The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 29
So Little Klaus crept up into the out-house, where he lay down, and made himself comfortable for the night.
Who acts: Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: creep up, lie down, make · To what, where: house, Klaus
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 (Little Klaus, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Klaus | amod |
| 3 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | nsubj |
| 4 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 crept | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 8 | out | out | X | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 out | punct |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lay | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 lay | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crept | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 made | obj |
| 20 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 night | det |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep up | past | Little Klaus | the house | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lie down | past | Klaus | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Little Klaus not said here | Klaus | night | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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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