The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 94

‘No, I really can’t,’ said Little Klans.

What happens: say · To what, where: Little Klans · 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: 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	_	10 said	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 ca	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 ca	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 ca	advmod
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ca	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ca	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 ca	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Klans	amod
12	Klans	Klan	PROPN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		Little Klans					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent klan=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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