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title: ‘He says,’ replied Little Klans, ‘that he has also conjured up for u… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘He says,’ replied Little Klans, ‘that he has also conjured up for us three bottles of wine; they are standing in the corner by the oven!’ Who acts: Klaus, Klans. 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 63

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‘He says,’ replied Little Klans, ‘that he has also conjured up for us three bottles of wine; they are standing in the corner by the oven!’

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**Who acts:** Klaus, Klans · **What happens:** say, reply, conjure up, stand · **To what, where:** Little Klans, corner · **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 (Klaus, Klans), 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:pg640:41:63
# text = ‘He says,’ replied Little Klans, ‘that he has also conjured up for us three bottles of wine; they are standing in the corner by the oven!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Klans	Klan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	conjured	conjure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	oven	oven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Klaus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | Little Klans |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent klan=Topic |
| 3 | **conjure up** | present · perfect | Klaus |  |  |  |  | for three bottles of wine | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | present · progressive | Klans *= klan* |  |  | the corner |  | by the oven | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |

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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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