The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 49

Then Little Klaus told him how he had lost his way, and begged to be allowed to spend the night there.

Who acts: Little Klaus, Klaus · What happens: tell, lose, beg, allow, spend · To what, where: sexton, way · 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 (Little Klaus, Klaus), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Klaus	amod
3	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 lost	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 begged	cc
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 allowed	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 allowed	aux:pass
17	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 begged	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 spend	mark
19	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 allowed	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spend	obj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 spend	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Little Klaus		sexton		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	lose	past · perfect	Klaus	Klaus's way				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality
3	beg speech: request	past	Little Klaus not said here					vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive						vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality
5	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive				there	night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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