The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 134

‘That’s certainly a good price!’ said Big Klaus; and running home in great haste, he took an axe, knocked all his four horses on the head, skinned them, and went into the town.

Who acts: That, good price, Klaus · What happens: be, say, run, take, knock, skin · To what, where: good price, great haste, axe, four horses, head, horses · 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, good price, 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 price	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 price	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 price	cop
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 price	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 price	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 price	amod
7	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 price	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 price	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Klaus	amod
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
15	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 took	advcl
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 running	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 haste	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 haste	amod
19	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 running	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 running	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 axe	det
24	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 knocked	punct
26	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 horses	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 horses	nmod:poss
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 horses	nummod
30	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 knocked	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 head	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 head	det
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 horses	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 skinned	punct
35	skinned	skin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 skinned	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 went	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 went	cc
39	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 town	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 town	det
42	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 went	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a good price		certainly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a good price				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	run	gerund	Klaus not said here		great haste	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Trajectory
4	take	past	Klaus	a axe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
5	knock	past	Klaus not said here	Klaus's four horses	the head		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on head=Destination
6	skin	past	Klaus not said here	horses = horse			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
7	go	past	Klaus not said here		the town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location

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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