The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 87

‘Ugh!’ he shrieked, springing back.

Who acts: Klaus · What happens: shriek, spring back

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	_	6 shrieked	punct
2	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	6 shrieked	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ugh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ugh	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shrieked	nsubj
6	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 springing	punct
8	springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shrieked	advcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 springing	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	Klaus						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	spring back	gerund	Klaus not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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