The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 34
'I am not surprised that people are so loth to die when they know that they will see such horrible creatures.'
Who acts: I, people · What happens: not be, be, die, know, see · To what, where: such horrible creatures · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, people), 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 | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprised | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 surprised | advmod |
| 5 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 loth | mark |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 loth | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 loth | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 loth | advmod |
| 10 | loth | loth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surprised | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 loth | csubj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 know | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 21 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 creatures | amod |
| 22 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 see | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | people | loth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | know | present | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | future | people | such horrible creatures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
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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