The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 75
‘He will show himself in the shape of a sexton!’
Who acts: Devil · What happens: show · To what, where: Devil
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 (Devil), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shape | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shape | det |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sexton | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sexton | det |
| 11 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shape | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | future | Devil | Devil | in the shape of a sexton | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in shape=Topic |
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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