The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 202
‘You shall pay for this dearly, Little Klaus!’
Who acts: You · What happens: pay
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), 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 pay | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 pay | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pay | aux |
| 4 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Klaus | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Klaus | nsubj |
| 7 | dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Klaus | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Klaus | punct |
| 9 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Klaus | amod |
| 10 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pay | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | shall | You | for dearly Little Klaus | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for klaus=Theme |
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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