The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 25

‘Well, I must lie down outside,’ said Little Klaus; and the farmer’s wife shut the door in his face.

Who acts: I, Little Klaus, wife · What happens: lie down, say, shut · To what, where: door, face · 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, Little Klaus, wife), 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 lie	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 lie	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lie	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lie	aux
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 lie	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Klaus	amod
13	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 shut	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shut	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 farmer	det
17	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wife	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 farmer	case
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	nsubj
20	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 door	det
22	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 face	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 face	nmod:poss
25	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shut	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	must	I			down, outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Little Klaus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shut	past	the farmer's wife	the door	Klaus's face		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent 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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