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title: Now when Little Klaus again reached home with so much money he sent… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now when Little Klaus again reached home with so much money he sent his boy to Big Klaus to borrow his bushel measure. Who acts: Little Klaus, 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 cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 185

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Now when Little Klaus again reached home with so much money he sent his boy to Big Klaus to borrow his bushel measure.

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**Who acts:** Little Klaus, Klaus · **What happens:** reach, send, borrow, measure · **To what, where:** boy, Big, bushel 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 (Little Klaus, 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:pg640:41:185
# text = Now when Little Klaus again reached home with so much money he sent his boy to Big Klaus to borrow his bushel measure.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Little Klaus |  |  |  | now; again | home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** | past | Klaus | Klaus's boy | Big |  |  | with much money | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to big=Destination |
| 3 | **borrow** | to-infinitive | Klaus *not said here* | Klaus's bushel measure |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Theme |
| 4 | **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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