The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 148
Little Klaus’ grandmother had just died.
Who acts: grandmother · What happens: die
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Klaus | amod |
| 2 | Klaus | Klaus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 2 Klaus | case |
| 4 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 died | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 died | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 died | advmod |
| 7 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | Little Klaus's grandmother | 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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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