More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 33

Sore sick he was and like to die, No help his life could save; His wife by him as sick did lie, And both possest one grave.

Who acts: gentleman, life, wife · What happens: be, die, save, lie, pos · To what, where: help, one grave

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, life, wife), 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	Sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sick	amod
2	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 save	csubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	cop
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 like	cc
6	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sick	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	8 die	mark
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
10	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 help	det
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 save	obl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 save	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 save	aux
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
17	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lie	nsubj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 sick	case
22	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wife	nmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lie	aux
24	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 save	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 possest	punct
26	And	and	CCONJ	_	28 possest	cc
27	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	28 possest	advmod
28	possest	pos	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 save	conj
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 grave	nummod
30	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 possest	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	gentleman		like property	tree rules
2	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	save	could	gentleman's life	no help		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past · do-support	gentleman's wife by gentleman as sick			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pos	present	gentleman's life not said here	one grave		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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