The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 56
‘Hallo! what have you got in your sack?’ asked the farmer.
Who acts: you, Hallo · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: Hallo, sack, farmer
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 (you, Hallo), 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 | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 got | obj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Hallo | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sack | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sack | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 farmer | det |
| 15 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | Hallo | your sack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hallo | the farmer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient |
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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