The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 14
Of my own free will thou shouldst never have had her, for now I must lose my life.’
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: not have, lose · To what, where: daughter, life
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 free | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 free | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 free | amod |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 had | nsubj |
| 7 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 had | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | aux |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 free | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lose | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 now | case |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lose | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lose | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lose | aux |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 free | parataxis |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | should · future · perfect | thou | daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | must | I | my life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
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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