The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 55

‘Hush!’ said Little Klaus to his sack, at the same time treading on it again so that it squeaked even louder than before.

Who acts: Little Klaus, same time, sack · What happens: say, tread, squeak · To what, where: sack · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Little Klaus, same time, sack), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hush	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Klaus	amod
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sack	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sack	nmod:poss
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
16	treading	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 time	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 treading	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 treading	advmod
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	23 squeaked	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 squeaked	nsubj
23	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 treading	advcl
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 louder	advmod
25	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 squeaked	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 before	case
27	before	before	ADV	_	25 louder	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus	Klaus's sack		time	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sack=Recipient
2	tread	gerund	the same time not said here		sack	again	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
3	squeak	past	sack				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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