The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 17

Now I have no horse!’ said Little Klaus, beginning to cry.

Who acts: I, Little Klaus · What happens: have, say, begin, cry · To what, where: horse · 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 have	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Klaus	amod
10	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 beginning	punct
12	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cry	mark
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 beginning	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	I	no horse	now	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	gerund	Little Klaus not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Little Klaus not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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