The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 146
‘Aha!’ said he when he came home, ‘Little Klaus shall pay dearly for this.
Who acts: Klaus, Little Klaus · What happens: say, come, pay · 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, Little 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Aha | aha | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Aha | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 pay | punct |
| 13 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Klaus | amod |
| 14 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pay | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 pay | aux |
| 16 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | conj |
| 17 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 16 pay | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 pay | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | Klaus | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | shall | Little Klaus | for this; dearly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for this=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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