--- title: ‘I’ll see to your horses!’ said Big Klaus; and, seizing an iron bar,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I’ll see to your horses!’ said Big Klaus; and, seizing an iron bar, he struck Little Klaus’ one horse such a blow on the head that it fell down and died on the spot. Who acts: I, Big, bar. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Big, bar), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:41:15 # text = ‘I’ll see to your horses!’ said Big Klaus; and, seizing an iron bar, he struck Little Klaus’ one horse such a blow on the head that it fell down and died on the spot. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Big Big PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 12 Klaus Klaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 seizing seize VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 Little Little ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Klaus Klaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 28 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 30 det:predet _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 37 down down ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | future | I | | | | | to your horses | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Big | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **seize** | gerund | Big *not said here* | a iron bar | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme | | 4 | **strike** | past | Big | Little Klaus's one horse | | | | on the head; such blow *obl* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Instrument on head=Patient | | 5 | **fall down** | past | bar | | | | | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **die** | past | bar *not said here* | | | the spot | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/16/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/)