The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 57
If anyone is to die for her it must be me.”
Who acts: anyone, thought · What happens: be · To what, where: me
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 (anyone, thought), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 die | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 die | mark |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 die | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 me | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 me | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 me | cop |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | anyone | for mistress; die property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | must | thought | me | 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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