The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 156

‘What a very wicked man!’ thought Little Klaus.

Who acts: wicked man · What happens: man, think · To what, where: Little Klaus

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 (wicked man), 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	_	6 man	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 man	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 wicked	advmod
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Klaus	amod
11	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	man								tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	a wicked man	Little Klaus					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot klaus=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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