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title: ‘Open the sack,’ called out Little Klaus; ‘creep in here instead of… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Open the sack,’ called out Little Klaus; ‘creep in here instead of me, and you will die in a moment!’ Who acts: you, ’. 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 218

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‘Open the sack,’ called out Little Klaus; ‘creep in here instead of me, and you will die in a moment!’

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**Who acts:** you, ’ · **What happens:** open, call out, die · **To what, where:** sack, Little

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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 (you, ’), 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:pg640:41:218
# text = ‘Open the sack,’ called out Little Klaus; ‘creep in here instead of me, and you will die in a moment!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
10	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	creep	creep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sack |  |  |  | instead me; ’ *obl*; creep *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme in here=Location |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | ’ *not said here* | Little |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | future | you |  |  |  | moment |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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