The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 86
The farmer opened the lid a little way, and saw him inside.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: open, see · To what, where: lid, Klaus
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 (farmer), 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 | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lid | det |
| 5 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 11 saw | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the farmer | the lid | a little way obl:unmarked | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | the farmer not said here | Klaus | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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