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title: ‘Hullo!’ cried Little Klaus, running out of the door, and seizing th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hullo!’ cried Little Klaus, running out of the door, and seizing the host by the throat. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 177

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‘Hullo!’ cried Little Klaus, running out of the door, and seizing the host by the throat.

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**What happens:** cry, run, seize · **To what, where:** Little Klaus, door, host

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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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:41:177
# text = ‘Hullo!’ cried Little Klaus, running out of the door, and seizing the host by the throat.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hullo	hullo	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Little Klaus |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent klaus=Topic |
| 2 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund |  | the host |  |  |  | by the throat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme |

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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.

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**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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