The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 98

'You would not have had me leave them to die of hunger,' answered he, 'or be swallowed up by the waves of the sea?

Who acts: You, me, children, waves · What happens: not have, leave, die, answer, swallow up, wave · To what, where: me, children, fisher, sea

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. 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, children, waves), 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 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 had	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 had	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	aux
6	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	obj
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 die	mark
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 hunger	case
13	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 die	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 swallowed	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 swallowed	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 swallowed	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 swallowed	aux:pass
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 answered	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 swallowed	compound:prt
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 waves	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 waves	det
26	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 swallowed	obl:agent
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sea	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sea	det
29	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 waves	nmod
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not have	would · perfect	You	me			tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	me not said here	children = child			tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
4	answer speech: assert	past			fisher		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
5	swallow up	infinitive · passive	the waves of the sea				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wave			the sea			nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

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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