The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 87

But at the end of six hundred years we should have to die, so we should be no better off!

Who acts: we · What happens: have, die, not be · To what, where: end

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 hundred	compound
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 end	nmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 die	mark
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 better	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	20 better	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 better	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 better	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 better	cop
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 better	advmod
20	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 have	parataxis
21	off	off	ADP	_	20 better	compound:prt
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	should	we	at the end of hundred years		tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	not is	should	we		good property	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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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