The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 69
Isn’t that true?’ he asked, treading on the sack so that it squeaked.
Who acts: that, Klaus, sack · What happens: not be, ask, tread, squeak · To what, where: sack
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 (that, Klaus, 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 true | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 treading | punct |
| 10 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 sack | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sack | det |
| 13 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 treading | obl |
| 14 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 squeaked | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 so | fixed |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 squeaked | nsubj |
| 17 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 treading | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | that | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Klaus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tread | gerund | Klaus not said here | the sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sack=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | 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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