The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 20

“Certainly,” answered he; “still, at the end of the thousand years I should have to die!

Who acts: I · What happens: answer, have, die · To what, where: prince, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 answered	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
9	still	still	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 still	punct
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 years	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 years	det
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 end	nmod
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 die	mark
22	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: express	past		prince		certainly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	have in a quote	should	I		at the end of the thousand years; still		tree rules
3	die in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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