--- title: The farmer’s wife opened it, but when she heard what he wanted she t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The farmer’s wife opened it, but when she heard what he wanted she told him to go away; her husband was not at home, and she took in no strangers. Who acts: wife, Klaus, husband. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/) / 24 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 24 The farmer’s wife opened it, but when she heard what he wanted she told him to go away; her husband was not at home, and she took in no strangers. **Who acts:** wife, Klaus, husband · **What happens:** open, hear, want, tell, go away, not be · **To what, where:** farmer, Klaus, home, strangers · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wife, Klaus, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:41:24 # text = The farmer’s wife opened it, but when she heard what he wanted she told him to go away; her husband was not at home, and she took in no strangers. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 obj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | the farmer's wife | farmer | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | wife | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **want** | past | Klaus | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | wife | | Klaus | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **go away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **is** | past | wife's husband | | | home | | | tree rules | | 7 | **take** | past | wife | | | no strangers | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in stranger=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/25/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/)