The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 199

And he began to tell him what a dreadful thing he had done, and what a wicked man he was, and that he ought to be punished; till Big Klaus was so frightened that he jumped into the cart and drove home as hard as he could.

Who acts: Klaus, Big · What happens: begin, tell, do, punish, be, jump · To what, where: Klaus, dreadful thing, man, cart · 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 (Klaus, Big), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 began	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 done	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 thing	det
9	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 done	nsubj:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 done	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 done	aux
13	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tell	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 what	cc
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 began	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 was	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 punished	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 punished	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 punished	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 punished	nsubj:pass
26	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 punished	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	29 punished	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 punished	aux:pass
29	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 began	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 frightened	punct
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	36 frightened	mark
32	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 frightened	nsubj
33	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Big	flat
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 frightened	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 frightened	advmod
36	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 jumped	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 jumped	nsubj
39	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 frightened	advcl
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 cart	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cart	det
42	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 jumped	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 drove	cc
44	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 jumped	conj
45	home	home	ADV	_	44 drove	advmod
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 hard	advmod
47	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 drove	advmod
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 could	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 could	nsubj
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 hard	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Klaus					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here		Klaus			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect · passive		a dreadful thing				tree rules
4	punish	ought · passive		man				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	is	past	Big				frightened property	tree rules
6	jump	past	Big			the cart		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cart=Destination
7	drive	past	Big not said here				hard, home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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