The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 32

The farmer’s wife and the sexton sat at the table, but there was no one else.

Who acts: wife, one · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: table

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 (wife, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sexton	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sexton	det
7	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	conj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 table	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 table	det
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 was	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 was	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the farmer's wife and the sexton			the table			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
2	be	past	no one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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