The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 79

‘I would rather die than not know what is in that tureen,’ she burst forth so violently that the husband was quite startled.

Who acts: I, wife · What happens: die, not know, be, burst, startle · To what, where: tureen, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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	_	5 die	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 die	advmod
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 burst	ccomp
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 know	mark
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 die	advcl
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 tureen	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tureen	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 tureen	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 tureen	det
13	tureen	tureen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 know	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burst	nsubj
17	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	17 burst	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 violently	advmod
20	violently	violently	ADV	_	17 burst	advmod
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 startled	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 husband	det
23	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 startled	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 startled	aux:pass
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 startled	advmod
26	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 burst	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	would	I				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not know	infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present			that tureen		tree rules
4	burst	past	wife			forth, violently property	tree rules
5	startle	past · passive		the husband			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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