The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 82
‘I must ask my wizard,’ said Little Klaus, treading on the sack and putting his ear to it.
Who acts: I, Little Klaus · What happens: ask, say, tread, put · To what, where: wizard, sack, ear · 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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wizard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Klaus | amod |
| 11 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 treading | punct |
| 13 | treading | tread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sack | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sack | det |
| 16 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 treading | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 putting | cc |
| 18 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 treading | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ear | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 putting | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 putting | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | must | I | my wizard | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wizard=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Little Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tread | gerund | Little Klaus not said here | the sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sack=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | put | gerund | Little Klaus not said here | Klaus's ear | ear | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal |
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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