The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 69

‘Then I shall die of grief,’ replied the Roe, ‘for when I hear that horn I feel as if I must jump right out of my skin.’

Who acts: I · What happens: die, reply, hear, feel, jump · To what, where: Roe, horn, skin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 die	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 die	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 die	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 die	aux
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 die	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 die	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Roe	det
12	Roe	Roe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 hear	mark
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 hear	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 hear	nsubj
18	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 horn	mark
20	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hear	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 feel	nsubj
22	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 horn	acl:relcl
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 jump	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 jump	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 jump	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 jump	aux
27	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 feel	ccomp
28	right	right	ADV	_	32 skin	advmod
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 skin	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 out	fixed
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 skin	nmod:poss
32	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 jump	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 hear	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	shall	I			then	of grief	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer
2	reply speech: assert	past		the Roe				tree rules
3	hear	present	I	horn				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer horn=Stimulus
4	feel	present	I	horn not said here				tree rules
5	jump a condition, not said to happen	must	I		my skin			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out skin=Trajectory

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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