The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 37
I would sooner see you in your grave than the wife of a man who carries his whole fortune on his back.’
Who acts: I, man · What happens: see, carry · To what, where: you, grave, whole fortune, back
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (I, man), 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 | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 grave | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 carries | nsubj |
| 16 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fortune | amod |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | would | I | you | your grave | than the wife of a man; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | carry | present | a man | man's whole fortune | man's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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