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title: ‘Oh yes, certainly I will!’ said the host; and, pouring out a large… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh yes, certainly I will!’ said the host; and, pouring out a large glass of mead, he took it out to the dead grandmother, who was sitting upright in the cart. Who acts: Klaus, dead grandmother. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its d
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 171

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‘Oh yes, certainly I will!’ said the host; and, pouring out a large glass of mead, he took it out to the dead grandmother, who was sitting upright in the cart.

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**Who acts:** Klaus, dead grandmother · **What happens:** say, pour out, take out, sit · **To what, where:** host, large glass, glass, cart · **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, dead grandmother), 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:pg640:41:171
# text = ‘Oh yes, certainly I will!’ said the host; and, pouring out a large glass of mead, he took it out to the dead grandmother, who was sitting upright in the cart.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
3	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl	_	_
36	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the host |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent host=Topic |
| 2 | **pour out** | gerund |  | a large glass of mead |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
| 3 | **take out** | past | Klaus | glass |  |  |  | to the dead grandmother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | the dead grandmother |  |  | the cart |  | upright *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cart=Location |

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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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