The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 1
‘There is but one death I can die,’ thought he.
Who acts: one death · What happens: be, die, think · To what, where: death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one death), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 die | cc |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 death | nummod |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 die | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 die | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 die | aux |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 is | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | can | one death | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | death | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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