The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 61
Little Klaus now trod again on his sack, so that the skin squeaked.
Who acts: Little Klaus · What happens: tread, squeak · To what, where: sack, skin
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), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Klaus | amod |
| 2 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 trod | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 trod | advmod |
| 4 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 trod | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sack | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sack | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trod | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 squeaked | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 squeaked | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 squeaked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 trod | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tread | past | Little Klaus | Klaus's sack | now; again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sack=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | squeak | participle · passive | the skin | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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