The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 149

Though she had been very unkind to him, he was very much distressed, and he took the dead woman and laid her in his warm bed to try if he could not bring her back to life.

Who acts: grandmother, Klaus · What happens: be, distress, take, lay, try, not bring back · To what, where: Klaus, dead woman, grandmother, warm bed, life

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, Klaus), 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	6 unkind	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 unkind	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 unkind	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 unkind	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 unkind	advmod
6	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 unkind	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 distressed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 distressed	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 distressed	aux:pass
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 distressed	advmod
14	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 unkind	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 distressed	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 laid	cc
23	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 laid	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 bed	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bed	nmod:poss
27	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bed	amod
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 try	mark
30	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 laid	advcl
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 bring	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 bring	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 bring	advmod
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 try	advcl
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bring	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	35 bring	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 life	case
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	grandmother		Klaus		unkind property	tree rules
2	distress	past · passive		Klaus				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	take	past	Klaus		the dead woman			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
4	lay	past	Klaus not said here	grandmother		Klaus's warm bed		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bed=Destination
5	try	to-infinitive	Klaus not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	not bring back a condition, not said to happen	could	Klaus	grandmother		life		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to life=Destination

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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