The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 59
‘Goodness me!’ said the farmer; and opening the oven he saw all the delicious, tempting dishes his wife had hidden there, but which he now believed the wizard in the sack had conjured up for them.
Who acts: farmer, Klaus · What happens: say, open, see, tempt, hide, believe · To what, where: oven, dishes, wizard, 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 (farmer, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goodness | punct |
| 2 | Goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Goodness | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goodness | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goodness | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farmer | det |
| 8 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 opening | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opening | cc |
| 11 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oven | det |
| 13 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 opening | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 oven | acl:relcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 delicious | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 delicious | det |
| 18 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tempting | punct |
| 20 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 opening | conj |
| 21 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dishes | nmod |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hidden | aux |
| 25 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tempting | ccomp |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 hidden | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 believed | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 believed | cc |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 believed | obj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 believed | nsubj |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 believed | advmod |
| 32 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wizard | det |
| 34 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 believed | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 sack | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 sack | det |
| 37 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 conjured | obl |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 conjured | aux |
| 39 | conjured | conjure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 believed | ccomp |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 conjured | compound:prt |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 conjured | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | open | gerund | the farmer not said here | the oven | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oven=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Klaus | the oven not said here | delicious property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oven=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | tempt | gerund | the farmer not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | hide | past · perfect · passive | dishes Klaus's wife | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | believe | past | Klaus | the wizard | now | tree rules | |||
| 7 | conjure up | past · perfect | the sack | for cakes = cake | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary |
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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