The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 54
The porridge did not taste good to him, so he trod upon his sack, and the dry skin in the sack squeaked loudly.
Who acts: porridge, Klaus, dry skin · What happens: not taste, tread, squeak · To what, where: sack
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 (porridge, Klaus, dry skin), 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 porridge | det |
| 2 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taste | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taste | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 taste | advmod |
| 5 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 taste | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 good | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trod | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 trod | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 trod | nsubj |
| 12 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taste | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 sack | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sack | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trod | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 squeaked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 squeaked | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 skin | det |
| 19 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 skin | amod |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 squeaked | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sack | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sack | det |
| 23 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skin | nmod |
| 24 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trod | conj |
| 25 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 24 squeaked | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not taste | past · do-support | the porridge | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tread | past | Klaus | Klaus's sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon sack=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | squeak | past | the dry skin in the sack | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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