The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 83

It was a lucky thing for the poor crab that she had some friends to come to her help or she certainly would have died then and there.

Who acts: arm, few, friends · What happens: be, have, come, die, help · To what, where: lucky thing, friends, help

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm, few, friends), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 crab	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crab	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crab	amod
9	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	advcl
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 friends	det
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 help	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 help	nmod:poss
19	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 died	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 died	nsubj
22	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	25 died	advmod
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 died	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 died	aux
25	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 help	acl:relcl
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 died	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 there	cc
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 then	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	arm	a lucky thing			for the poor crab	tree rules
2	have	past	few	some friends				tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	some friends not said here		few's help			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location
4	die	would · perfect	few	few's help not said here		then	certainly property	tree rules
5	help		few					nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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