The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 200

The apothecary and all the people thought he must be mad, so they let him go.

Who acts: apothecary, Big, things · What happens: think, be, let, go · To what, where: Big · 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 (apothecary, Big, things), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 apothecary	det
2	apothecary	apothecary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thought	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 people	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 people	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 apothecary	conj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 mad	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 mad	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 mad	cop
11	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 let	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	nsubj
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the apothecary and all people			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	must	Big		mad property	tree rules
3	let	present	things = thing	Big		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	Big not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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