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title: ‘Well!’ said Little Klaus at last, ‘as you have been so good as to g… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well!’ said Little Klaus at last, ‘as you have been so good as to give me shelter to-night, I will sell him. Who acts: Little, you, I. 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 98

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‘Well!’ said Little Klaus at last, ‘as you have been so good as to give me shelter to-night, I will sell him.

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**Who acts:** Little, you, I · **What happens:** say, be, give, shelter, sell · **To what, where:** last, me, sexton · **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, you, I), 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:pg640:41:98
# text = ‘Well!’ said Little Klaus at last, ‘as you have been so good as to give me shelter to-night, I will sell him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
7	Klaus	Klaus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	shelter	shelter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	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 |  |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shelter** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sell** | future | I |  | sexton |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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