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title: ‘Yes,’ replied Little Klaus; ‘you threw me into the river a good hal… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes,’ replied Little Klaus; ‘you threw me into the river a good half-hour ago!’ 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 230

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‘Yes,’ replied Little Klaus; ‘you threw me into the river a good half-hour ago!’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** reply, throw · **To what, where:** Little, me, river

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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:pg640:41:230
# text = ‘Yes,’ replied Little Klaus; ‘you threw me into the river a good half-hour ago!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Little |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw** | past | you | me |  |  |  | into the river *result*; ago *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into river=Result |

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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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