The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 245

‘I should not have done so, if it is so beautiful down below!’

Who acts: I, fish · What happens: not do, be

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, fish), 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 done	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 done	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 done	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beautiful	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 beautiful	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beautiful	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 beautiful	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 beautiful	advmod
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 done	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	15 below	advmod
15	below	below	ADV	_	13 beautiful	advmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	should · perfect	I						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	fish					beautiful, below property	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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