The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 45

‘Oh, dear! oh, dear!’ groaned Little Klaus up in the shed, when he saw the good food disappearing.

Who acts: Klaus, good food · What happens: groan, see, disappear · To what, where: Little Klaus, shed, good food

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 (Klaus, good food), 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	_	4 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 groaned	parataxis
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
6	oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 dear	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dear	punct
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dear	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dear	punct
11	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Klaus	amod
13	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 groaned	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 Klaus	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 shed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 shed	det
17	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 groaned	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 saw	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 groaned	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 food	det
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 food	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
25	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 saw	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	groan	past		Little Klaus	the shed	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent klaus=Theme
2	see	past	Klaus	the good food		tree rules
3	disappear	gerund	the good food not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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