The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 130
What does this mean?’ said Big Klaus, and he ran off at once to Little Klaus.
Who acts: this, Big Klaus, Klaus · What happens: mean, say, run off · To what, where: Little 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, Big 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 mean | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Klaus | amod |
| 9 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ran | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 ran | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 ran | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Klaus | case |
| 18 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Klaus | amod |
| 19 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present · do-support | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Big Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run off | past | Klaus | Little Klaus | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to klaus=Result |
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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