The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 52

The farmer was hungry, and ate with a good appetite; but Little Klaus could not help thinking of the delicious dishes of fish and roast meats and cakes which he knew were in the oven.

Who acts: farmer, Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: be, eat, not help, think, know · To what, where: delicious dishes, oven

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 (farmer, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 appetite	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 appetite	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 appetite	amod
11	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 help	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 help	cc
14	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Klaus	amod
15	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 help	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 help	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 help	advmod
18	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ate	conj
19	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 help	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 dishes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 dishes	det
22	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 dishes	amod
23	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 oven	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fish	case
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dishes	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 meats	cc
27	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meats	compound
28	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dishes	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cakes	cc
30	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dishes	conj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 knew	obj
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 knew	nsubj
33	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dishes	acl:relcl
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 oven	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 oven	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 oven	det
37	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thinking	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the farmer			hungry property	tree rules
2	eat	past				with a good appetite	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not help	could	Little Klaus				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	gerund					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	past	Klaus	the delicious dishes of fish and roast meats and cakes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
6	is	past			the oven	of the delicious dishes of fish and roast meats and cakes	tree rules

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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