The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 256

If you like to go there yourself and then creep into the sack, I will throw you in with the greatest of pleasure.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, go, creep, throw in · To what, where: yourself, sack, you

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 (you, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 like	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
3	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 throw	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 go	mark
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 go	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 creep	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 creep	advmod
10	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 sack	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sack	det
13	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creep	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 throw	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 throw	aux
17	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 throw	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	17 throw	compound:prt
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 greatest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 greatest	det
22	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 throw	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 pleasure	case
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 greatest	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 throw	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	like a condition, not said to happen	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself	there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	creep	infinitive	you not said here		the sack	then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sack=Destination
4	throw in	future	I	you			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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