--- title: Soon after Big Klaus came out of the church, and taking up the sack… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon after Big Klaus came out of the church, and taking up the sack on his shoulders it seemed to him as if it had become lighter; for the old cattle-driver was not half as heavy as Little Klaus. Who acts: Big Klaus, it, sack, old cattle driver. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big Klaus, it, sack, old cattle driver), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:41:221 # text = Soon after Big Klaus came out of the church, and taking up the sack on his shoulders it seemed to him as if it had become lighter; for the old cattle-driver was not half as heavy as Little Klaus. 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 2 after after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 Big Big ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 Klaus Klaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 12 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 xcomp _ _ 28 lighter light ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 30 for for SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 cattle cattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 driver driver NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 40 compound _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Klaus Klaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come out** | past | Big Klaus | the church | | | | soon *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result | | 2 | **take up** | gerund | | the sack | | Klaus's shoulders | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on shoulder=Destination | | 3 | **seem** | past | it | | Klaus | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **become** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | sack | | | | | light *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is** | past | the old cattle driver | | | | | half *property* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/220/) - next →: [sentence 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/222/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/)