The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 218

‘Open the sack,’ called out Little Klaus; ‘creep in here instead of me, and you will die in a moment!’

Who acts: you, ’ · What happens: open, call out, die · To what, where: sack, Little

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, ’), 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	_	2 Open	punct
2	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ’	punct
6	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obl
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ’	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 called	compound:prt
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 called	obl
10	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Little	flat
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 creep	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 creep	punct
13	creep	creep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Open	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 here	case
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Open	obl
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 me	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Open	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 die	cc
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Open	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 moment	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 die	obl
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	imperative	you not said here	the sack		instead me; ’ obl; creep obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in here=Location
2	call out speech: assert	participle	’ not said here	Little			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die	future	you		moment		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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