The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 145

Out of the town with him!’ they shouted; and Big Klaus had to hurry off as quickly as he could, if he wanted to save his life.

Who acts: pieces, Big Klaus, Klaus · What happens: shout, have, hurry off, want, save · To what, where: town, life · 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 (pieces, Big Klaus, Klaus), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 town	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 town	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shouted	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 town	nmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 town	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 town	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shouted	nsubj
10	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
13	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Klaus	amod
14	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shouted	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hurry	mark
17	hurry	hurry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 hurry	compound:prt
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 quickly	advmod
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	17 hurry	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 quickly	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wanted	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 wanted	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wanted	nsubj
27	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 had	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 save	mark
29	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wanted	xcomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 save	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	pieces = piece		the town with bushel		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Big Klaus				tree rules
3	hurry off	to-infinitive	Big Klaus not said here			quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	want a condition, not said to happen	past	Klaus				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here	Klaus's life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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