The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 177

‘Hullo!’ cried Little Klaus, running out of the door, and seizing the host by the throat.

What happens: cry, run, seize · To what, where: Little Klaus, door, host

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: 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 cried	punct
2	Hullo	hullo	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hullo	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hullo	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Klaus	amod
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 running	punct
9	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 door	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 door	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 door	det
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 running	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seizing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seizing	cc
16	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cried	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 host	det
18	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seizing	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 throat	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 throat	det
21	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seizing	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Little Klaus			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Topic
2	run	gerund		the door		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory
3	seize	gerund	the host		by the throat	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=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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