The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 14

But as soon as more people passed by, and nodded him good-morning, he became so happy in thinking how well it looked to have five horses ploughing his field that, cracking his whip, he called out ‘Gee-up, my five horses!’

Who acts: Klaus, crack, five horses · What happens: pass by, nod, become, think, look, have · To what, where: more people, Klaus, five horses, field, whip, Gee up · 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 (Klaus, crack, five horses), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 became	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soon	obl
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 people	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 passed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nodded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nodded	cc
11	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 soon	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 nodded	obj
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 good	punct
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nodded	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 happy	advmod
20	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 thinking	mark
22	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 happy	advcl
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 well	advmod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 looked	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thinking	ccomp
27	to	to	PART	_	28 have	mark
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 looked	xcomp
29	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 horses	nummod
30	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
31	ploughing	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 horses	acl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 field	nmod:poss
33	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ploughing	obj
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 ploughing	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cracking	punct
36	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 ploughing	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 whip	nmod:poss
38	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cracking	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 called	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 called	nsubj
41	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 became	conj
42	out	out	ADP	_	41 called	compound:prt
43	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 up	punct
44	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 up	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 up	punct
46	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 called	xcomp
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 horses	punct
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 horses	nmod:poss
49	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 horses	nummod
50	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 up	conj
51	!	!	PUNCT	_	46 up	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 up	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	participle		more people not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	nod	past		Klaus	morning		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	become	past	Klaus			happy, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	think speech: other	gerund	Klaus not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	look	past	crack			well property	tree rules
6	have	to-infinitive	crack not said here	five horses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
7	plough	gerund	five horses not said here	Klaus's field			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location that=Result
8	crack	gerund	five horses not said here	Klaus's whip			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme
9	call out speech: assert	past	Klaus	Gee up and my five horses			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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