The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 111
As for me, I would die gladly if that could bring back our Prince to reign justly and worthily once more.”
Who acts: I, that · What happens: die, bring back, reign · To what, where: Prince
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 me | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 die | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 me | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 7 die | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 die | advcl |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reign | mark |
| 17 | reign | reign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | advcl |
| 18 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 17 reign | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 worthily | cc |
| 20 | worthily | worthily | ADV | _ | 18 justly | conj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 reign | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | would | I | as me; gladly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bring back a condition, not said to happen | could | that | our Prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prince=Destination | ||||
| 3 | reign | to-infinitive | that not said here | justly 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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