Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 120

It is a good thing for my old grandmother that she was already dead, or he would have taken her life."

Who acts: door, grandmother, Claus · What happens: be, take · To what, where: good thing, old grandmother, life

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 (door, grandmother, Claus), 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 grandmother	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grandmother	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grandmother	amod
9	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dead	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dead	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 dead	advmod
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grandmother	acl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 taken	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 taken	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taken	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 taken	aux
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 dead	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	door	a good thing	for my old grandmother	tree rules
2	is	past	grandmother	my old grandmother not said here	dead property	tree rules
3	take	would · perfect	Claus	grandmother's life		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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