The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 34

‘If one could only get some of that!’ thought Little Klaus, stretching his head towards the window.

Who acts: one · What happens: get, think, stretch · To what, where: some, Little Klaus, head

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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 thought	ccomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 get	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 some	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Klaus	amod
14	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thought	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretching	punct
16	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thought	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stretching	obj
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 window	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 window	det
21	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stretching	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	could	one	some		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past		Little Klaus		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent klaus=Attribute clause=Theme
3	stretch	gerund		Klaus's head	towards the window	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Patient towards window=Recipient

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/pg640/41/34/