The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 216

‘Alas!’ moaned Little Klans, ‘I am so young and yet I must die!’

Who acts: I · What happens: moan, be, die · To what, where: Little Klans

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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 moaned	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 moaned	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 moaned	punct
5	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Klans	amod
7	Klans	Klan	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 moaned	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 young	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 young	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 young	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 young	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 young	advmod
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moaned	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 die	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 die	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 die	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 die	aux
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 young	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 moaned	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 moaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past		Little Klans			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent klan=Theme
2	is	present	I			young property	tree rules
3	die	must	I		yet		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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