The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 24

The farmer’s wife opened it, but when she heard what he wanted she told him to go away; her husband was not at home, and she took in no strangers.

Who acts: wife, Klaus, husband · What happens: open, hear, want, tell, go away, not be · To what, where: farmer, Klaus, home, strangers · 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 (wife, Klaus, husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 opened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heard	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 heard	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 heard	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
11	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	parataxis
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 heard	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wanted	nsubj
14	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wanted	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 home	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 husband	nmod:poss
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 home	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 home	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 home	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heard	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	nsubj
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 strangers	case
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 strangers	det
34	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 took	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	open	past	the farmer's wife	farmer				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	hear	past	wife					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	want	past	Klaus					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	tell speech: assert	past	wife		Klaus			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not is	past	wife's husband			home		tree rules
7	take	past	wife			no strangers		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in stranger=Location

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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