The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 12

‘Now you had better stop that,’ said Big Klaus, ‘for if you say it once more I will give your horse such a crack on the head that it will drop down dead on the spot!’

Who acts: you, Big, I, crack · What happens: have, say, give, drop down · To what, where: better stop, stop, crack, horse, spot · 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 (you, Big, I, crack), 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 had	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 stop	amod
6	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stop	dep
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Big	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 say	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 give	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 say	obj
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 more	advmod
21	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 say	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 horse	nmod:poss
26	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
27	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	29 crack	det:predet
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 crack	det
29	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 head	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 head	det
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crack	nmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 drop	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 drop	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 drop	aux
36	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 give	advcl
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 drop	compound:prt
38	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 drop	xcomp
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 spot	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 spot	det
41	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 drop	obl
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	you	better stop			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Big						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you	stop					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	give	future	I	such crack	your horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient crack=Theme
5	drop down	future	crack			the spot		dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spot=Trajectory

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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