The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 211

‘Oh, dear! oh, dear!’ groaned Little Klaus in the sack, twisting and turning himself.

What happens: groan, twist, turn · To what, where: Little Klaus, sack, Klaus

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: 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 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 groaned	parataxis
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
6	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dear	punct
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
11	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Klaus	amod
13	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 groaned	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 sack	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sack	det
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 groaned	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 twisting	punct
18	twisting	twist	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 groaned	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turning	cc
20	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 twisting	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 turning	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	groan	past	Little Klaus	the sack	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent klaus=Theme
2	twist	gerund			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	gerund	Klaus		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=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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