The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 137

All the shoemakers and tanners came running to ask him what he wanted for them.

Who acts: shoemakers, price · What happens: come, run, ask, want · To what, where: price · 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 (shoemakers, 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 shoemakers	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shoemakers	det
3	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tanners	cc
5	tanners	tanner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoemakers	conj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 running	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 wanted	obj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	nsubj
13	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wanted	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	all shoemakers and tanners			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	all shoemakers and tanners not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	all shoemakers and tanners not said here	price		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	want	past	price		for shoemakers = shoemaker	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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