The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 34

“I would die to save him from pain.

Who acts: Beauty · What happens: die, save · To what, where: Beast, pain

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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	_	4 die	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 save	mark
6	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 save	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 pain	case
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 save	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	would	Beauty						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	save in a quote	to-infinitive	Beauty not said here	Beast		pain			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from pain=Source

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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