The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 71

He says ‘’Yes;’’ but that the Devil looks so ugly that we should not like to see him.’

Who acts: Klaus, Devil, we · What happens: say, look, not like, see · To what, where: Klaus · 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, Devil, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	_	11 looks	punct
4	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 looks	discourse
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 Yes	punct
6	’’	''	PUNCT	_	4 Yes	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 looks	cc
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 looks	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Devil	det
10	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 looks	nsubj
11	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 ugly	advmod
13	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looks	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 like	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 like	advmod
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ugly	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 see	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 looks	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Klaus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	the Devil		ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not like	should	we			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	Klaus		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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