The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 115
‘No, don’t do that!’ called out the sexton in the chest.
What happens: not do, call out · To what, where: that, sexton
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: 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sexton | det |
| 13 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 chest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chest | det |
| 16 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sexton | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive · do-support | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | the sexton in the chest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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