The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 49

“I would far rather die myself than hurt you; but even if I am killed you will not be safe: we must find some way of making the King believe that you are dead.”

Who acts: nothing, you, we, way · What happens: die, hurt, kill, not be, find, make · To what, where: nothing, you, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, you, we, way), 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	_	6 die	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 rather	advmod
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 die	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 hurt	mark
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 die	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 hurt	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 killed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 killed	cc
13	even	even	ADV	_	17 killed	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 killed	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 killed	nsubj:pass
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 killed	aux:pass
17	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 die	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 safe	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 safe	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 safe	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 safe	cop
22	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 killed	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
24	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 die	conj
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 believe	nsubj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 making	mark
30	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 way	acl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 making	obj
33	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 find	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 dead	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 dead	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	cop
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 believe	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	would	nothing	nothing		tree rules
2	hurt in a quote	past	nothing not said here	you		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient
3	kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		nothing		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not is in a quote	future	you		safe property	tree rules
5	find in a quote	must	we			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	make in a quote	gerund	some way not said here	the King		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product
7	believe in a quote	present	some way			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	is in a quote	present	you		dead property	tree rules

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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