The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 98

‘Well!’ said Little Klaus at last, ‘as you have been so good as to give me shelter to-night, I will sell him.

Who acts: Little, you, I · What happens: say, be, give, shelter, sell · To what, where: last, me, 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 (Little, you, I), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	nsubj
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Little	flat
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 good	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 good	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 good	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 good	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 give	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 give	mark
20	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 good	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 give	iobj
22	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 give	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 to	punct
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shelter	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sell	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 sell	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 sell	aux
29	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sell	iobj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Little		last			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present · perfect	you				good property	tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	you not said here	me				tree rules
4	shelter	infinitive	you not said here			night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sell	future	I	sexton				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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