The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 56
'After all, what does it matter?' thought the queen to herself, 'I have only one life, and I can but lose it.'
Who acts: I · What happens: matter, think, have, lose · To what, where: tormentor, queen, one life, life
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), 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 | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 matter | obj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | aux |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 matter | expl |
| 8 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 queen | det |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 herself | case |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 thought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 life | nummod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 can | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 can | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 can | nsubj |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | advcl |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 lose | cc |
| 28 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 lose | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present · do-support | tormentor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the queen | queen | after all | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot queen=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | I | one life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose | infinitive | I not said here | life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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