The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 53

'Then, if I must die,' said Pinkel, who, by this time, was getting really rather frightened, 'let me at least choose the manner of my death.

Who acts: I, Pinkel, me, my · What happens: die, say, get, let, choose · To what, where: me, manner, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Pinkel, me, my), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Then	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 die	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 die	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 die	aux
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 die	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 die	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 time	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 time	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Pinkel	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 getting	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 getting	aux
20	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
21	really	really	ADV	_	23 frightened	advmod
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 frightened	advmod
23	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 getting	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 least	case
29	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 choose	obl
30	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 manner	det
32	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 choose	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 death	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 death	nmod:poss
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 manner	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die a condition, not said to happen	must	I					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: assert	past	Pinkel			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	past · progressive	Pinkel not said here				frightened property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	let	infinitive		me				tree rules
5	choose	infinitive	me not said here	the manner of my death	least			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent manner=Theme at least=Asset
6	die		my					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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