The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 17

I know all about the prophecy that was made at my birth, but I would far rather be killed at once than live an idle, useless life here.

Who acts: I · What happens: know, make, kill, live · To what, where: prophecy, birth, I, idle useless life

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 know	advmod
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 prophecy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prophecy	det
6	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 made	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 prophecy	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 birth	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 birth	nmod:poss
12	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 killed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 killed	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 killed	nsubj:pass
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 killed	aux
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 rather	advmod
18	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 killed	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 killed	aux:pass
20	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 once	case
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 killed	obl
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 live	mark
24	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 killed	advcl
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 life	det
26	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 life	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 idle	punct
28	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 life	amod
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 live	obj
30	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 live	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			about the prophecy; all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about prophecy=Stimulus
2	make	past · passive		the prophecy	my birth		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	kill	would · passive		I			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	live	infinitive		a idle useless life	here		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location

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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