The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 158

It was a good thing for my grandmother that she was dead already, or else he would have killed her!’

Who acts: door, grandmother · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: good thing, grandmother, Klaus

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 (door, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past 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	_	8 grandmother	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grandmother	nmod:poss
8	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dead	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grandmother	acl
13	already	already	ADV	_	12 dead	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 killed	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 killed	cc
16	else	else	ADV	_	20 killed	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 killed	nsubj:pass
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 killed	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 killed	aux
20	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thing	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 killed	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 killed	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	door	a good thing	for my grandmother	tree rules
2	is	past	grandmother	my grandmother not said here	dead property	tree rules
3	kill	would · perfect · passive		Klaus	else property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result

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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