The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 65

He would very much like to have had such a wizard as Little Klaus had in the sack.

Who acts: Klaus, Little Klaus · What happens: have · To what, where: wizard, sack

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, Little 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	8 had	mark
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 wizard	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wizard	det
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
13	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Klaus	amod
14	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 sack	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sack	det
18	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would · perfect	Klaus	such wizard					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wizard=Patient
2	have	past	Little Klaus			the sack			vn birth-28.2-1 «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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