The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 206

And he seized Little Klaus, pushed him in the sack, threw it over his shoulder, crying out ‘Now I am going to drown you!’

Who acts: Klaus, I · What happens: seize, push, throw, cry out, go, drown · To what, where: Little Klaus, Klaus, sack, shoulder, you

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, I), 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 seized	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Klaus	amod
5	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pushed	punct
7	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pushed	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pushed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 threw	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 shoulder	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulder	nmod:poss
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
19	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seized	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 crying	compound:prt
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
22	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 going	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 going	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seized	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 drown	mark
27	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 going	xcomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 drown	obj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	seize	past	Klaus	Little Klaus			tree rules
2	push	past	Klaus not said here	Klaus	the sack		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in sack=Trajectory
3	throw	past	Klaus not said here	sack	Klaus's shoulder		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over shoulder=Destination
4	cry out speech: express	gerund	Klaus not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go	present · progressive	I			now	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	drown	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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