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title: ‘Yes; but help me first,’ said Big Klaus, ‘or else you shall have a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes; but help me first,’ said Big Klaus, ‘or else you shall have a beating!’ Who acts: Big Klaus, 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 264

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‘Yes; but help me first,’ said Big Klaus, ‘or else you shall have a beating!’

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**Who acts:** Big Klaus, you · **What happens:** help, say, have · **To what, where:** me, beating · **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, 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:pg640:41:264
# text = ‘Yes; but help me first,’ said Big Klaus, ‘or else you shall have a beating!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Big	Big	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	‘	‘	SYM	SYM	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	beating	beating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | infinitive |  |  | me |  |  | first *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Big Klaus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | shall | you | a beating |  |  |  | else *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beating=Patient |

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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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