Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fox and the Cat, sentence 21

Had you been able to climb like me, you would not have lost your life.’

Who acts: you · What happens: have, be, climb, not lose · To what, where: you, life

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fox and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 able	csubj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Had	obj
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 climb	mark
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 climb	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 lost	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 climb	advcl
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past		you		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	is	participle			able property	tree rules
3	climb	to-infinitive			like me	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not lose	would · perfect	you	your life		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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