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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 price | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 price | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 price | cop |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 price | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 price | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 price | amod |
| 7 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 price | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 price | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Big | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurrying | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurrying | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurrying | punct |
| 16 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 hurrying | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 axe | det |
| 22 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laid | punct |
| 28 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laid | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 cart | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cart | det |
| 32 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laid | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 drove | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 drove | cc |
| 35 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 drove | compound:prt |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 apothecary | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 apothecary | det |
| 39 | apothecary | apothecary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drove | obl |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 apothecary | case |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 asked | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 asked | cc |
| 43 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 44 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 46 wanted | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 wanted | nsubj |
| 46 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 asked | ccomp |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 buy | mark |
| 48 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 wanted | xcomp |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 body | det |
| 50 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 body | amod |
| 51 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 buy | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a good price | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a good price | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurry | gerund | a good price not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Big | a axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | past | Big not said here | Big's grandmother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lay | past | Big not said here | grandmother | the cart | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cart=Destination | |||
| 7 | drive off | past | Big not said here | the apothecary | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to apothecary=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | past | Big not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | want | past | price | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 10 | buy not said to happen | to-infinitive | price not said here | a dead body | vn 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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