The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 91
‘You MUST sell me the wizard,’ said the farmer.
Who acts: You, farmer · What happens: sell, say · To what, where: wizard, me · 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 (You, farmer), 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 sell | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sell | nsubj |
| 3 | MUST | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sell | aux |
| 4 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sell | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wizard | det |
| 7 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sell | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sell | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | must | You | the wizard | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wizard=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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