The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 244

‘But why did you come up to us again?’ asked Big Klaus.

Who acts: you · What happens: come up, ask · To what, where: us, 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 come	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 come	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 come	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Klaus	amod
15	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 asked	iobj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past · do-support	you		us		again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location
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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