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title: So Little Klaus got a bushel of money, and the host buried his grand… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Little Klaus got a bushel of money, and the host buried his grandmother as if she had been his own. Who acts: Little, host, grandmother. 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 184

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So Little Klaus got a bushel of money, and the host buried his grandmother as if she had been his own.

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**Who acts:** Little, host, grandmother · **What happens:** get, bury, be · **To what, where:** bushel, grandmother

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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 (Little, host, 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:pg640:41:184
# text = So Little Klaus got a bushel of money, and the host buried his grandmother as if she had been his own.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Little | a bushel of money |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bushel=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bury** | past | the host | bushel's grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | grandmother |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |

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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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