The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 138

‘A bushel of money for each,’ said Big Klaus.

Who acts: bushel · What happens: say · 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 (bushel), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bushel	det
3	bushel	bushel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bushel	nmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 money	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bushel	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 bushel	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Klaus	amod
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a bushel of money for each						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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