The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 8

They saw Little Klaus ploughing with the five horses; but he was so happy that he kept on cracking his whip, and calling out ‘Gee-up, my five horses!’

Who acts: bells, Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: see, plough, be, keep, crack, call out · To what, where: Little Klaus, whip, Gee up

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 (bells, Little Klaus, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Klaus	amod
4	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	ploughing	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 saw	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 horses	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horses	det
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 horses	nummod
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ploughing	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 happy	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 happy	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 happy	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happy	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 happy	advmod
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 kept	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 kept	nsubj
18	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 happy	advcl
19	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 cracking	mark
20	cracking	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 kept	xcomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 whip	nmod:poss
22	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cracking	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 calling	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 calling	cc
25	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	conj
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 calling	compound:prt
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 up	punct
28	Gee	gee	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 up	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 up	punct
30	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 calling	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 horses	punct
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 horses	nmod:poss
33	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 horses	nummod
34	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 calling	xcomp
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 horses	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 horses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	bells = bell	Little Klaus		tree rules
2	plough	gerund	Little Klaus not said here		with the five horses	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Klaus		happy property	tree rules
4	keep	past	Klaus			tree rules
5	crack	gerund	Klaus not said here	Klaus's whip		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=Theme
6	call out speech: assert	gerund	bells = bell not said here	Gee up		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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