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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 193

‘That is indeed a good price!’ said Big Klaus; and, hurrying home, he took an axe and killed his grandmother, laid her in the cart, and drove off to the apothecary’s, and asked whether he wanted to buy a dead body.

Who acts: That, good price, Big, price · What happens: be, say, hurry, take, kill, lay · To what, where: good price, axe, grandmother, cart, apothecary, dead body · 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 (That, good price, Big, price), 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

punctnsubjcopadvmoddetamodnsubjpunctpunctnsubjflatpunctccpunctadvcladvmodpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjccconjnmod:possobjpunctconjobjcasedetoblpunctccconjcompound:prtcasedetoblcasepunctccconjmarknsubjccompmarkxcompdetamodobjpunctroot‘PUNCTThatPRONisAUXindeedADVaDETgoodADJpriceNOUN!PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBBigPROPNKlausPROPN;PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCThurryingVERBhomeADV,PUNCThePRONtookVERBanDETaxeNOUNandCCONJkilledVERBhisPRONgrandmotherNOUN,PUNCTlaidVERBherPRONinADPtheDETcartNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdroveVERBoffADPtoADPtheDETapothecaryNOUN’sPART,PUNCTandCCONJaskedVERBwhetherSCONJhePRONwantedVERBtoPARTbuyVERBaDETdeadADJbodyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_7 pricepunct
2ThatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem7 pricensubj
3isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 pricecop
4indeedindeedADV_7 priceadvmod
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 pricedet
6goodgoodADJDegree=Pos7 priceamod
7pricepriceNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidnsubj
8!!PUNCT_7 pricepunct
9’'PUNCT_7 pricepunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11BigBigPROPNNumber=Sing10 saidnsubj
12KlausKlausPROPNNumber=Sing11 Bigflat
13;;PUNCT_16 hurryingpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 hurryingcc
15,,PUNCT_16 hurryingpunct
16hurryinghurryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 saidadvcl
17homehomeADV_16 hurryingadvmod
18,,PUNCT_20 tookpunct
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 tooknsubj
20tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 saidparataxis
21anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 axedet
22axeaxeNOUNNumber=Sing20 tookobj
23andandCCONJ_24 killedcc
24killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 tookconj
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 grandmothernmod:poss
26grandmothergrandmotherNOUNNumber=Sing24 killedobj
27,,PUNCT_28 laidpunct
28laidlayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 tookconj
29hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 laidobj
30ininADP_32 cartcase
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 cartdet
32cartcartNOUNNumber=Sing28 laidobl
33,,PUNCT_35 drovepunct
34andandCCONJ_35 drovecc
35drovedriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 tookconj
36offoffADP_35 drovecompound:prt
37totoADP_39 apothecarycase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 apothecarydet
39apothecaryapothecaryNOUNNumber=Sing35 droveobl
40’s'sPART_39 apothecarycase
41,,PUNCT_43 askedpunct
42andandCCONJ_43 askedcc
43askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 tookconj
44whetherwhetherSCONJ_46 wantedmark
45hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 wantednsubj
46wantedwantVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin43 askedccomp
47totoPART_48 buymark
48buybuyVERBVerbForm=Inf46 wantedxcomp
49aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art51 bodydet
50deaddeadADJDegree=Pos51 bodyamod
51bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing48 buyobj
52..PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentThata good priceindeed propertytree rules
2say speech: assertpasta good pricevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3hurrygerunda good price not said herehome propertyvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4takepastBiga axevn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
5killpastBig not said hereBig's grandmothervn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme
6laypastBig not said heregrandmotherthe cartvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cart=Destination
7drive offpastBig not said herethe apothecaryvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to apothecary=Trajectory
8ask speech: askpastBig not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9wantpastpricevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10buy not said to happento-infinitiveprice not said herea dead bodyvn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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