More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 108
Born a fool, die a fool, and be a fool thy life long, and that's the truth!"
Who acts: you, that · What happens: die, be · To what, where: fool, truth
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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 | Born | born | CCONJ | _ | 3 fool | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fool | det |
| 3 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool | punct |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fool | det |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fool | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fool | cc |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fool | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fool | det |
| 12 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | vocative |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 long | nsubj |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fool | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 truth | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 truth | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 truth | nsubj |
| 19 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 truth | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 truth | det |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 truth | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 truth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | imperative | you not said here | a fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | a fool | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | the truth | tree rules |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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