The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 233

‘I will tell you the whole story, and I thank you for having drowned me, because now I am on dry land and really rich!

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, thank, drown, be · To what, where: whole story, you, me, dry land · 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thank	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thank	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 thank	nsubj
12	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 thank	obj
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 drowned	mark
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 drowned	aux
16	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 thank	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 drowned	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 land	punct
19	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	20 now	case
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 land	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 land	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 land	cop
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 land	amod
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rich	cc
27	really	really	ADV	_	28 rich	advmod
28	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 land	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I	the whole story	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
2	thank speech: thank	present	I		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	drown	gerund · perfect	I not said here	me			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is	present	I			dry land	tree rules
5	be		I not said here				tree rules

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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