The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 43

“It is lucky for you that you spoke to me or you would have met with a horrible death.

Who acts: Tailor, you · What happens: be, speak, meet · To what, where: old woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tailor, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lucky	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	cop
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lucky	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 spoke	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lucky	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 met	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 met	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 met	aux
16	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 spoke	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 death	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 death	det
19	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 death	amod
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lucky	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Tailor		for you; lucky property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other in a quote	past	you	the old woman = woman		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
3	meet in a quote	would · perfect	you		with a horrible death	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with death=Co-Agent

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.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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