The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 42

But when they heard the farmer coming they were frightened, and the farmer’s wife begged the sexton to creep into a great empty chest.

Who acts: cakes, farmer, wife, sexton · What happens: hear, come, frighten, beg, creep · To what, where: farmer, cakes, sexton, great empty chest

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 (cakes, farmer, wife, sexton), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 farmer	acl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 frightened	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	aux:pass
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 coming	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wife	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 farmer	case
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	nsubj
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sexton	det
19	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 creep	mark
21	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 begged	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	26 chest	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chest	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chest	amod
25	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 chest	amod
26	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 creep	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	cakes = cake	the farmer		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	the farmer not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	frighten	past · passive		cakes = cake		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
4	beg speech: request	past	the farmer's wife	the sexton		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sexton=Recipient clause=Topic
5	creep not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sexton not said here		a great empty chest	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chest=Destination

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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