The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 126
‘This will put Big Klaus in a rage when he hears how rich I have become through my one horse; but I won’t tell him just yet!’
Who acts: This, Klaus, I · What happens: put, hear, become, not tell · To what, where: Big, rage, Klaus · 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 (This, Klaus, I), 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 | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Big | flat |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rage | det |
| 9 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 hears | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hears | nsubj |
| 12 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | advcl |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 rich | advmod |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hears | xcomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 become | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 become | aux |
| 17 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 rich | acl:relcl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 horse | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 horse | nummod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 become | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 tell | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 tell | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 tell | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 tell | advmod |
| 27 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tell | iobj |
| 29 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 yet | advmod |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 tell | advmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | future | This | Big | a rage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent big=Theme in rage=Destination | |||
| 2 | hear | present | Klaus | rich property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | I | through my one horse | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | future | I | Klaus | yet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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