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title: And this is just what happened; for when he got his measure back, th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And this is just what happened; for when he got his measure back, three new silver five-shilling pieces were sticking to it. Who acts: this, Klaus, three new silver. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 129

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And this is just what happened; for when he got his measure back, three new silver five-shilling pieces were sticking to it.

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**Who acts:** this, Klaus, three new silver · **What happens:** be, happen, get back, stick, measure · **To what, where:** measure

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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 (this, Klaus, three new silver), 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:pg640:41:129
# text = And this is just what happened; for when he got his measure back, three new silver five-shilling pieces were sticking to it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get back** | past | Klaus | Klaus's measure |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer measure=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stick** | past · progressive | three new silver  five |  | measure |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **measure** |  | Klaus |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=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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