The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 257

‘Thank you,’ said Big Klaus; ‘but if I don’t get any sea-cattle when I come there, you will have a good hiding, mind!’

Who acts: Big Klaus, I, you · What happens: thank, say, not get, come, have · To what, where: you, sea cattle, good hiding · 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 (Big Klaus, I, you), 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
7	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Klaus	amod
8	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 get	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 get	advmod
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 have	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 cattle	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cattle	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 sea	punct
20	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 come	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
23	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 get	advcl
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 get	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Thank	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hiding	det
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hiding	amod
31	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mind	punct
33	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hiding	conj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Big Klaus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not get a condition, not said to happen	present · do-support	I	any sea cattle			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cattle=Stimulus
4	come	present	I			there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	future	you	a good hiding and mind			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiding=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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