The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 264

‘Yes; but help me first,’ said Big Klaus, ‘or else you shall have a beating!’

Who acts: Big Klaus, you · What happens: help, say, have · To what, where: me, beating · 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, 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	_	5 help	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 help	discourse
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 help	cc
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 help	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 help	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Big	Big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Klaus	amod
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	‘	SYM	_	19 have	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 have	cc
16	else	else	ADV	_	19 have	advmod
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beating	det
21	beating	beating	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	help	infinitive			me	first property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
2	say speech: assert	past	Big Klaus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	shall	you	a beating		else property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=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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