The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 76

‘I say!’ said the farmer, ‘he must be ugly!

Who acts: I, farmer, Devil · What happens: say, be · 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 (I, farmer, Devil), 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 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ugly	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 ugly	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ugly	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 ugly	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 ugly	cop
14	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	conj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the farmer		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	must	Devil	ugly property	tree rules

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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