The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 13

‘I really won’t say it again!’ said Little Klaus.

Who acts: I, Little Klaus · What happens: not say, say · To what, where: crack · 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	_	6 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 say	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
4	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obj
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Klaus	amod
13	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	future	I	crack			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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