The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 201
‘You shall pay for this!’ said Big Klaus as he drove home.
Who acts: You, Big Klaus, Klaus · What happens: pay, say, drive · 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 (You, Big Klaus, Klaus), 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 | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 pay | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Klaus | amod |
| 11 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 drove | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drove | nsubj |
| 14 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 drove | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | shall | You | for this | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Big Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | Klaus | 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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