The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 67

‘I should like to see him very much, for I feel just now in very good spirits!’

Who acts: I · What happens: like, see, feel · To what, where: Klaus

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 (I), 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	_	4 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 like	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 like	aux
4	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 like	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 feel	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 feel	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 feel	nsubj
13	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 like	conj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 now	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 feel	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 spirits	case
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 good	advmod
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 spirits	amod
19	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 feel	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	like	should	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	Klaus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	feel	present	I		now	in good spirits	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in spirit=Attribute

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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