The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 117
‘Oh, oh!’ said Little Klaus, pretending that he was afraid.
Who acts: Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: say, pretend, be · 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Klaus | amod |
| 9 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pretending | punct |
| 11 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 afraid | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 afraid | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 afraid | cop |
| 15 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pretending | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | pretend | gerund | Little Klaus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Klaus | afraid property | tree rules |
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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