The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 35
Ah, what delicious cakes he saw standing there!
Who acts: delicious cakes · What happens: see, stand
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 (delicious cakes), 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 saw | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 saw | obj |
| 4 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cakes | amod |
| 5 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 standing | advmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | delicious cakes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | delicious cakes not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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