The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 231
‘But how did you get those splendid cattle?’ asked Big Klaus.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: splendid cattle, Big Klaus · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 get | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 cattle | det |
| 8 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cattle | amod |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 get | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Klaus | amod |
| 14 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | you | that splendid cattle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Big Klaus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent klaus=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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