The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 5

The whole week through Little Klaus had to plough for Big Klaus, and lend him his one horse; then Big Klaus lent him his four horses, but only once a week, and that was on Sunday.

Who acts: Little Klaus, Big, that · What happens: have, plough, lend, be · To what, where: one horse, Klaus, four horses

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 (Little Klaus, Big, that), 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	3 week	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 week	amod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl:unmarked
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 Klaus	case
5	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Klaus	amod
6	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 plough	mark
9	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Big	case
11	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plough	obl
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Big	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lend	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lend	cc
15	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 plough	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lend	obj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horse	nmod:poss
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 horse	nummod
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lend	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lent	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lent	advmod
22	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 lent	nsubj
23	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Big	flat
24	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lent	obj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 horses	nmod:poss
27	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 horses	nummod
28	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lent	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 once	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 once	cc
31	only	only	ADV	_	32 once	advmod
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 had	obl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 week	det
34	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 once	obl:unmarked
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Sunday	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Sunday	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 Sunday	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 Sunday	cop
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 Sunday	case
40	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 once	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Little Klaus			week		tree rules
2	plough	to-infinitive	Little Klaus not said here				for Big	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	lend	infinitive	Little Klaus not said here	Klaus's one horse	Klaus			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme
4	lend	past	Big	Klaus's four horses	Klaus	then		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme
5	is	past	that				on Sunday	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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