The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 50

‘Yes, certainly,’ said the farmer; ‘but we must first have something to eat!’

Who acts: we · What happens: say, have, eat · To what, where: farmer, something · 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 (we), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 certainly	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 certainly	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 have	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 something	acl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the farmer	certainly property	tree rules
2	have	must	we	something	first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here	something not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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