Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 50

If he starves to death, so much the better."

Who acts: miser · What happens: starve

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miser), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 starves	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starves	nsubj
3	starves	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 better	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starves	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 starves	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	10 better	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 better	det
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 better	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 better	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	present	miser					to death	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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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