The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 151

And in the night as he sat there the door opened, and Big Klaus came in with his axe.

Who acts: Klaus, door, Big Klaus · What happens: sit, open, come in

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, door, Big 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 sat	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sat	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sat	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Klaus	amod
15	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	conj
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 axe	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 axe	nmod:poss
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Klaus	there	night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	open	past	the door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come in	past	Big Klaus			with Klaus's axe	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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