The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 122

‘Ah, that’s quite another thing!’ said Little Klaus, opening the chest.

Who acts: that, Little Klaus · What happens: be, say, open · To what, where: thing, chest · 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 (that, Little 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	_	8 thing	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 thing	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thing	nsubj
5	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thing	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 thing	advmod
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 thing	det
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Klaus	amod
13	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 opening	punct
15	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 chest	det
17	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 opening	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	that	another thing	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	open	gerund	Little Klaus not said here	the chest	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chest=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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