The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 94
'Oh! let me die,' cried she, 'rather than go on leading this life.
Who acts: you, me · What happens: let, die, cry, go, lead · To what, where: me, Eglantine, life
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | parataxis |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 go | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 16 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 leading | mark |
| 17 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 go | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 life | det |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leading | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | me not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Eglantine | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | this life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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