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title: The whole week through Little Klaus had to plough for Big Klaus, and… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole week through Little Klaus had to plough for Big Klaus, and lend him his one horse; then Big Klaus lent him his four horses, but only once a week, and that was on Sunday. Who acts: Little Klaus, Big, that. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Litt
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 5

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The whole week through Little Klaus had to plough for Big Klaus, and lend him his one horse; then Big Klaus lent him his four horses, but only once a week, and that was on Sunday.

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**Who acts:** Little Klaus, Big, that · **What happens:** have, plough, lend, be · **To what, where:** one horse, Klaus, four horses

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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 (Little Klaus, Big, that), 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:pg640:41:5
# text = The whole week through Little Klaus had to plough for Big Klaus, and lend him his one horse; then Big Klaus lent him his four horses, but only once a week, and that was on Sunday.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	plough	plough	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	lent	lend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	only	only	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Little Klaus |  |  |  | week |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plough** | to-infinitive | Little Klaus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Big | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lend** | infinitive | Little Klaus *not said here* | Klaus's one horse | Klaus |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 4 | **lend** | past | Big | Klaus's four horses | Klaus |  | then |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horse=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | on Sunday | tree rules |

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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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