The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 97

I should like to have him so much!’ said the farmer, begging very hard.

Who acts: I, farmer · What happens: like, have, say, beg · To what, where: sexton · 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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 like	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 have	mark
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 like	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 have	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 farmer	det
13	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 begging	punct
15	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 hard	advmod
17	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 begging	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	should	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	sexton		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the farmer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	beg speech: request	gerund	the farmer not said here		hard property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

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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