The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 23

‘I should very much like to be allowed to spend the night there,’ thought Little Klaus; and he went and knocked at the door.

Who acts: I, Klaus · What happens: like, allow, spend, think, go, knock · To what, where: Little Klaus · 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, 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 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 thought	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	9 allowed	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 allowed	aux:pass
9	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 like	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 spend	mark
11	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 allowed	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spend	obj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 spend	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
17	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Klaus	amod
19	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 thought	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knocked	cc
25	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knocked	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
3	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		there	night		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	past		Little Klaus				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent klaus=Attribute clause=Theme
5	go	past	Klaus					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	knock	past	Klaus not said here				at the door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient

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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