The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 58

‘He says we should not eat porridge, for he has conjured the whole oven full of roast meats and fish and cakes.’

Who acts: Klaus, we · What happens: say, not eat, conjure · To what, where: porridge, whole oven · 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 (Klaus, 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	_	3 says	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eat	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 eat	advmod
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 conjured	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 conjured	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 conjured	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 conjured	aux
13	conjured	conjure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 eat	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oven	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 oven	amod
16	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 conjured	obj
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 oven	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 meats	case
19	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meats	compound
20	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 full	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fish	cc
22	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 meats	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cakes	cc
24	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 meats	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Klaus		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not eat	should	we	porridge	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
3	conjure	present · perfect	Klaus	the whole oven	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oven=Result

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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