The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 194
‘Who is it, and how did you get it?’ asked the apothecary.
Who acts: you, body · What happens: be, get, ask · To what, where: body, apothecary
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, body), 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 | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 get | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 get | advmod |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 it | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 get | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apothecary | det |
| 16 | apothecary | apothecary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | body | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | past · do-support | you | body | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | body | the apothecary | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apothecary=Recipient |
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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