The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 84

‘He says you can open the chest in the corner there, and you will see the Devil squatting inside it; but you must hold the lid so that he shall not escape.’

Who acts: Klaus, you, Devil · What happens: say, open, see, squat, hold, not escape · To what, where: chest, corner, Devil, lid · 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, you, 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 says	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 open	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 open	aux
6	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chest	det
8	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 corner	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 open	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Devil	det
19	Devil	Devil	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	squatting	squat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 see	xcomp
21	inside	inside	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 squatting	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 hold	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 hold	cc
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 hold	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hold	aux
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lid	det
29	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	obj
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 escape	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 escape	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 escape	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 escape	advmod
35	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hold	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Klaus			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	open	can	you	the chest	the corner	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme in corner=Location
3	see	future	you	the Devil		tree rules
4	squat	gerund	the Devil not said here		corner	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent inside it=Location
5	hold	must	you	the lid		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
6	not escape	shall	Klaus			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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