The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 53

Under the table at his feet he had laid the sack with the horse-skin in it, for, as we know, he was going to the town to sell it.

Who acts: Klaus, we · What happens: lay, know, go, sell · To what, where: sack, table, town

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, we), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 table	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laid	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laid	aux
9	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laid	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 skin	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skin	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skin	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 horse	punct
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sack	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 skin	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 going	mark
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 know	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 know	nsubj
24	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 going	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 know	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 laid	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 town	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 town	det
31	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 going	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 sell	mark
33	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 going	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sell	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past · perfect	Klaus	the sack	the table at Klaus's feet	with the horse skin in table	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme under table=Destination
2	know	present	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past · progressive	Klaus		the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
4	sell	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	sack			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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