The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 77
You must know that I can’t bear to look at a sexton!
Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, not bear, look
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, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 bear | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 bear | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bear | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 bear | advmod |
| 8 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 bear | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sexton | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sexton | det |
| 13 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 look | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not bear | can | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | I not said here | at a sexton | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sexton=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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