The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 15

'Well, he is dead,' answered they, 'and we must die too.'

Who acts: husband, we · What happens: be, answer, die · To what, where: girls

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	parataxis
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 die	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 die	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 die	aux
16	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dead	conj
17	too	too	ADV	_	16 die	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	husband		dead property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past		girls = girl		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	die	must	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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