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title: Big Klaus put down the sack with Little Klaus in it by the church-do… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Big Klaus put down the sack with Little Klaus in it by the church-door, and thought that he might as well go in and hear a psalm before going on farther. Who acts: Big Klaus, Klaus. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tre
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 209

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Big Klaus put down the sack with Little Klaus in it by the church-door, and thought that he might as well go in and hear a psalm before going on farther.

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**Who acts:** Big Klaus, Klaus · **What happens:** put down, think, go in, hear, go · **To what, where:** sack, psalm · **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 (Big 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:pg640:41:209
# text = Big Klaus put down the sack with Little Klaus in it by the church-door, and thought that he might as well go in and hear a psalm before going on farther.
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	25	cc	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	farther	far	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past | Big Klaus | the sack |  | sack |  | with Little Klaus; by the church door | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in it=Destination |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go in** | might | Klaus |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | infinitive | Klaus *not said here* | a psalm |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer psalm=Stimulus |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | Klaus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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