The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 1
'If I am to die, I would rather you should kill me.
Who acts: I · What happens: die, kill · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. 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 | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 am | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 am | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 die | mark |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 am | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 am | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 10 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 kill | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | kill | should | I | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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