The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 66
‘Can he conjure up the Devil?’ asked the farmer.
Who acts: Klaus · What happens: conjure up, ask · To what, where: Devil, farmer · 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 (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 | _ | 4 conjure | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 conjure | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 conjure | nsubj |
| 4 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 conjure | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Devil | det |
| 7 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 conjure | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 conjure | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 conjure | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conjure up | can | Klaus | the Devil | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the farmer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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