The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 39

He was a very worthy man; but he had one great peculiarity--namely, that he could not bear to see a sexton.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: be, have, not bear, see · To what, where: worthy man, one great peculiarity, sexton

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 worthy	advmod
5	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 peculiarity	nummod
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 peculiarity	amod
13	peculiarity	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 namely	punct
15	namely	namely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 peculiarity	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bear	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 bear	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bear	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bear	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 bear	advmod
21	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 bear	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 sexton	det
25	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Klaus	a worthy man	tree rules
2	have	past	Klaus	one great peculiarity	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiarity=Patient
3	not bear	could	Klaus		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	a sexton	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sexton=Stimulus

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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