The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 251
‘Oh, you’re a lucky fellow!’ said Big Klaus.
Who acts: you, Big Klaus · What happens: be, say · To what, where: lucky fellow · 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, Big Klaus), 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 ’re | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 ’re | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ’re | nsubj |
| 5 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fellow | det |
| 7 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fellow | amod |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’re | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’re | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Big | Big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Klaus | amod |
| 13 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | a lucky fellow | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fellow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Big Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent 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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