The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 3
In order to distinguish the one from the other, the one who had four horses was called Big Klaus, and the one who had only one horse, Little Klaus.
Who acts: one · What happens: distinguish, have, call · To what, where: one, four horses, one horse · 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 (one), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 distinguish | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 distinguish | mark |
| 4 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distinguish | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 other | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distinguish | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 horses | nummod |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux:pass |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 distinguish | parataxis |
| 19 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | xcomp |
| 20 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Big | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Klaus | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Klaus | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Klaus | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 one | advmod |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 horse | nummod |
| 29 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Little | punct |
| 31 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Klaus | amod |
| 32 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 called | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distinguish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguish | to-infinitive | the one | from the other | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme from other=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the one | four horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past · passive | the one | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the one | one horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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