The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 144

‘Skins! skins!’ they cried mockingly; yes, we will tan YOUR skin for you!

Who acts: Skins, we · What happens: cry, tan · To what, where: skin

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 (Skins, we), 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	_	2 Skins	punct
2	Skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Skins	punct
4	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Skins	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Skins	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Skins	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	_	8 cried	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tan	punct
11	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	15 tan	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 yes	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tan	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 tan	aux
15	tan	tan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cried	conj
16	YOUR	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 skin	nmod:poss
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tan	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tan	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Skins and skins					mockingly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tan	future	we	YOUR skin				for you	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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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