The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 152

He knew quite well where Little Klaus’s bed stood, and going up to it he struck the grandmother on the head just where he thought Little Klaus would be.

Who acts: Klaus, bed, Little Klaus · What happens: know, stand, go up, strike, think, be · To what, where: bed, grandmother · 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, bed, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knew	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 stood	advmod
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bed	nmod:poss
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	’s	's	PART	_	6 Little	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 struck	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 struck	cc
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 struck	advcl
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 going	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 struck	nsubj
18	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grandmother	det
20	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struck	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 head	det
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 struck	obl
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 where	advmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 thought	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 thought	nsubj
27	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 struck	advcl
28	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Klaus	amod
29	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 be	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 be	aux
31	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thought	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	Klaus			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stand	past	Little's bed				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go up	gerund	Klaus not said here		bed		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	strike	past	Klaus	the grandmother		on the head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Instrument on head=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	Klaus				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	be	would	Little Klaus				vn exist-47.1 «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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