The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 191
‘You killed my grandmother--not me,’ said Little Klaus.
Who acts: You, Little Klaus · What happens: kill, say · To what, where: 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 (You, 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 | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 killed | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 me | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 me | advmod |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grandmother | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Klaus | amod |
| 13 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | You | my grandmother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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