The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 106
‘Farewell,’ said Little Klaus; and away he went with his money and the big chest, wherein sat the sexton.
Who acts: Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: say, go, sit · To what, where: sexton · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Klaus), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farewell | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Klaus | amod |
| 7 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 away | cc |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 money | nmod:poss |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chest | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chest | det |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chest | amod |
| 19 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 money | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 21 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 sat | advmod |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sexton | det |
| 24 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Klaus | with Klaus's money and the big chest; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with money=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | Klaus not said here | the sexton | wherein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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