The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 95

A lovely Princess like you must surely prefer to die rather than be the wife of a poor little dwarf like myself.”

Who acts: lovely Princess · What happens: prefer, die, be · To what, where: wife

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (lovely Princess), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Princess	amod
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prefer	nsubj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 Princess	nmod
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 prefer	aux
7	surely	surely	ADV	_	8 prefer	advmod
8	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 die	mark
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 prefer	xcomp
11	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	15 wife	cc
12	than	than	ADP	_	11 rather	fixed
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 wife	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wife	det
15	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 dwarf	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 dwarf	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dwarf	amod
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dwarf	amod
20	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wife	nmod
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 myself	case
22	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 dwarf	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prefer	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 prefer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefer	must	a lovely Princess like you		surely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	die not said to happen	to-infinitive	a lovely Princess like you not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is a	infinitive	a lovely Princess like you not said here	the wife	of a poor little dwarf like myself	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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