The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 97
“I’d rather marry all the dwarfs in the world than die in this horrible way.”
Who acts: Princess · What happens: marry, die · To what, where: dwarfs, world
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 3 | ’d | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 marry | advmod |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 dwarfs | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dwarfs | det |
| 8 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 marry | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwarfs | nmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 die | mark |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 marry | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 way | det |
| 16 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 die | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | past | the Princess = princess | all dwarfs | the world | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Patient | |||
| 2 | die in a quote | infinitive | the Princess = princess not said here | in this horrible way | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in way=Attribute |
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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