The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 136
Who will buy skins?’ he cried through the streets.
Who acts: price · What happens: buy, cry · To what, where: skins, streets
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 (price), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buy | obj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | parataxis |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 streets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 streets | det |
| 11 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | future | skins | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | price | the streets | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=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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