The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 4
Now you shall hear what befell them both, for this is a true story.
Who acts: you, this · What happens: hear, befall, be · To what, where: horses · 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 (you, this), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hear | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 befell | nsubj |
| 6 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 befell | obj |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 befell | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 both | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 story | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 story | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 story | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 befell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | shall | you | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | befall | past | horses = horse | both obl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | this | for a true story | tree rules |
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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