The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 29
The food may be bad, he will die of hunger; and, if he dies we die also.'
Who acts: food, life, we · What happens: be, die
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, life, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 food | det |
| 2 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bad | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bad | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bad | cop |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 die | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 die | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | aux |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bad | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hunger | case |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 die | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 die | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 dies | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dies | nsubj |
| 17 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 die | advcl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 die | nsubj |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | conj |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 die | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | the food | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | future | life | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 3 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | life | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | die | present | we | 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 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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