The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 59

Rather a thousand times that you should fancy me dead than imagine that I had forgotten you!

Who acts: thousand times, I · What happens: fancy, imagine, forget · To what, where: me, you

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 (thousand times, 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	Rather	rather	CCONJ	_	4 times	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thousand	det
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fancy	nsubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 fancy	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fancy	aux
8	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 times	acl:relcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 fancy	obj
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fancy	xcomp
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 imagine	mark
12	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fancy	advcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 forgotten	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 forgotten	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 forgotten	aux
16	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 imagine	ccomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 forgotten	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 times	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fancy	should	thousand times	me	dead property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	imagine	infinitive	thousand times not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	forget	past · perfect	I	you		tree rules

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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