The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 267

‘It goes all right!’ said Little Klaus; but still he laid a big stone in the sack, fastened it up tight, and then pushed it in.

Who acts: bottom, Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: go, say, lay, fasten up, push in · To what, where: big stone, sack, bottom · 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 (bottom, Little Klaus, 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	_	3 goes	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 right	advmod
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Klaus	amod
10	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 laid	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 laid	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 stone	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stone	amod
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 sack	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sack	det
21	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laid	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fastened	punct
23	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laid	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fastened	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 fastened	compound:prt
26	tight	tight	ADV	_	23 fastened	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 pushed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 pushed	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 pushed	advmod
30	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pushed	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	30 pushed	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	bottom				right property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lay	past	Klaus	a big stone	the sack	still		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in sack=Destination
4	fasten up	past	Klaus not said here	bottom			tight property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	push in	past	Little Klaus not said here	bottom		then		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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