Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 113

Meanwhile the old grandmother of Little Claus died.

Who acts: old grandmother · What happens: die

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old grandmother), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	8 died	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grandmother	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grandmother	amod
4	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Claus	case
6	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Claus	amod
7	Claus	Claus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grandmother	nmod
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the old grandmother of Little Claus					meanwhile property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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