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title: But as soon as someone else was going by Little Klaus forgot that he… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as soon as someone else was going by Little Klaus forgot that he must not say it, and called out ‘Gee-up, my five horses!’ Who acts: Klaus. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 11

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But as soon as someone else was going by Little Klaus forgot that he must not say it, and called out ‘Gee-up, my five horses!’

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**Who acts:** Klaus · **What happens:** go, forget, not say, call out · **To what, where:** whip, Gee up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:41:11
# text = But as soon as someone else was going by Little Klaus forgot that he must not say it, and called out ‘Gee-up, my five horses!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	else	else	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
11	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Gee	gee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | by Little; soon *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by little=Location |
| 2 | **forget** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | must | Klaus | whip |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | Gee up |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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