The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 68
‘Yes,’ said Little Klaus; ‘my wizard can do everything that I ask.
Who acts: Little Klaus, wizard, I · What happens: say, do, ask · To what, where: everything · 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, wizard, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Klaus | amod |
| 7 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wizard | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 do | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 ask | obj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 everything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Little Klaus | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | can | my wizard | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
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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