The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 74

But that horrid old wall—I would sooner die!”

Who acts: I · What happens: die

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 wall	cc
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 wall	nsubj
3	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wall	amod
5	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
9	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 die	advmod
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wall	parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	I					soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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