The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 230

‘Yes,’ replied Little Klaus; ‘you threw me into the river a good half-hour ago!’

Who acts: you · What happens: reply, throw · To what, where: Little, me, river

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	_	5 replied	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	obl:unmarked
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 threw	nsubj
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hour	amod
18	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	20 hour	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 half	punct
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ago	obl:unmarked
21	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 threw	advmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		Little					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	throw	past	you	me				into the river result; ago property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into river=Result

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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