The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 3

Now being so rich, and having so much to lose, he felt that it would be a terrible thing to die and leave all his possessions behind; so he made up his mind to set out in search of a land where there was no death.

Who acts: man, prayer · What happens: be, have, lose, feel, die, leave · To what, where: much, terrible thing, possessions, mind, search, land

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, prayer), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rich	advmod
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rich	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 felt	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 felt	cc
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 felt	advcl
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 having	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lose	mark
11	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 much	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 having	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 felt	nsubj
14	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 thing	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thing	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 thing	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 felt	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 die	mark
23	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thing	acl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 leave	cc
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 die	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 possessions	det:predet
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 possessions	nmod:poss
28	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 leave	obj
29	behind	behind	ADV	_	28 possessions	advmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	33 made	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
33	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	parataxis
34	up	up	ADP	_	33 made	compound:prt
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mind	nmod:poss
36	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 set	mark
38	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 made	advcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 set	compound:prt
40	in	in	ADP	_	41 search	case
41	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 land	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 land	det
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 search	nmod
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 was	advmod
46	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	47 was	expl
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 land	acl:relcl
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 death	det
49	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 was	nsubj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rich	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				now	rich property	tree rules
2	have	gerund	man not said here	much				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
3	lose	to-infinitive						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	feel	past	man					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is a	would	prayer	a terrible thing				tree rules
6	die	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	leave	infinitive	man not said here	man's possessions				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
8	make up	past	man	man's mind				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
9	set out	to-infinitive	man not said here		search of a land			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	possess		man					nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	mind		man					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
12	search			a land				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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