The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 46
‘Is anybody up there?’ asked the farmer, catching sight of Little Klaus.
Who acts: anybody · What happens: be, ask, catch, sight · To what, where: anybody, farmer, sight, Little Klaus
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 (anybody), 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 anybody | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anybody | cop |
| 3 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 anybody | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 anybody | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 anybody | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farmer | det |
| 10 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 catching | punct |
| 12 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 catching | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Klaus | case |
| 15 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Klaus | amod |
| 16 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sight | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | anybody | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | anybody | the farmer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | anybody not said here | sight of Little Klaus | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | Little Klaus | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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