--- title: Though she had been very unkind to him, he was very much distressed,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:41:149 # text = 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. 1 Though though SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 distressed distress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 back back ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/150/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/)