The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 43

'Let them both die, but they may choose their own deaths.'

Who acts: you, both, people · What happens: let, die, choose · To what, where: people, own deaths

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, both, 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 die	nsubj
5	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 choose	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 choose	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 choose	aux
10	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 deaths	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deaths	amod
13	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 choose	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	people	tree rules
2	die	present	both		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	choose	may	people	people's own deaths	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme
4	die		people		nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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