The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 203

So as soon as he got home he took the largest sack he could find, and went to Little Klaus and said: ‘You have fooled me again!

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: get, take, find, go, say, fool · To what, where: largest sack, Little, You · 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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 took	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	advcl
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 sack	amod
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sack	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 went	cc
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 Little	case
20	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 went	obl
21	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Little	flat
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 fooled	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 fooled	punct
26	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 fooled	nsubj:pass
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 fooled	aux
28	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 said	ccomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 fooled	obj
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 fooled	advmod
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Klaus				home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	take	past	Klaus	the largest sack			soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
3	find	could	Klaus	the largest sack not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Topic
4	go	past	Klaus not said here		Little			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to little=Initial_Location
5	say speech: assert	past	Klaus not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	fool	present · perfect · passive		You		again		tree rules

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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