The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 4
‘Ah! well,’ she sighed, ‘the Queen wishes to kill me, and if I must die I must.
Who acts: Graciosa, Queen, I · What happens: sigh, wish, kill, die · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Graciosa, Queen, 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 | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 sighed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ! | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 8 sighed | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sighed | nsubj |
| 8 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wishes | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wishes | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wishes | nsubj |
| 13 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sighed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wishes | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 die | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 die | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 die | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wishes | conj |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 must | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Graciosa | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wish | present | the Queen | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die a condition, not said to happen | must | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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 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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