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title: ‘Hush!’ said Little Klaus to his sack, at the same time treading on… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hush!’ said Little Klaus to his sack, at the same time treading on it again so that it squeaked even louder than before. Who acts: Little Klaus, same time, sack. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 55

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‘Hush!’ said Little Klaus to his sack, at the same time treading on it again so that it squeaked even louder than before.

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**Who acts:** Little Klaus, same time, sack · **What happens:** say, tread, squeak · **To what, where:** sack · **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 (Little Klaus, same time, sack), 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:pg640:41:55
# text = ‘Hush!’ said Little Klaus to his sack, at the same time treading on it again so that it squeaked even louder than before.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
16	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Klaus |  | Klaus's sack |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sack=Recipient |
| 2 | **tread** | gerund | the same time *not said here* |  |  | sack | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **squeak** | past | sack |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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