The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 143

‘He is making game of us,’ they said; and the shoemakers seized their yard measures and the tanners their leathern aprons and they gave Big Klaus a good beating.

Who acts: bushel, pieces, shoemakers · What happens: make, say, seize, give, measure · To what, where: game, yard measures, good beating, Big 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 (bushel, pieces, shoemakers), 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	_	4 making	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 making	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 game	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 seized	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seized	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoemakers	det
15	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seized	nsubj
16	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 measures	nmod:poss
18	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 measures	compound
19	measures	measure	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 seized	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tanners	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tanners	det
22	tanners	tanner	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 measures	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 aprons	nmod:poss
24	leathern	leathern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 aprons	amod
25	aprons	apron	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tanners	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 seized	conj
29	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Klaus	amod
30	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 beating	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beating	amod
33	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	make	present · progressive	bushel	game of us		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	pieces = piece			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seize	past	the shoemakers	pieces's yard measures and the tanners pieces's leathern aprons		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme
4	give	past	pieces = piece	a good beating	Big Klaus	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Recipient beating=Theme
5	measure		pieces = piece			nom measure «act transitive»: poss=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/143/