The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 43
He did so, as he knew the poor man could not bear to see a sexton.
Who acts: sexton, poor man · What happens: do, know, not bear, see · To what, where: sexton · 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 (sexton, poor man), 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bear | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bear | advmod |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bear | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sexton | det |
| 17 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | sexton | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | sexton | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not bear | could | the poor man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the poor man 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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