The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 217

‘And I, poor man,’ said the cattle-driver, ‘I am so old and yet I cannot die!’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, be, not die · 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), 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	_	3 I	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 I	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 I	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 I	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 driver	det
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 driver	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cattle	punct
13	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 old	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 old	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 old	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 old	advmod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 die	cc
21	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 die	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 die	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 die	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 die	advmod
25	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 old	conj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I		old property	tree rules
3	not die	can	I	yet		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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