The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 38
‘If she is so foolish as to wish to die, I can’t help it.
Who acts: wife, I · What happens: be, wish, die, not help · To what, where: house
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 (wife, 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 | _ | 6 foolish | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 foolish | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 foolish | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 foolish | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 foolish | advmod |
| 6 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 foolish | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 help | advmod |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 foolish | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 foolish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wife | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | not help | can | I | house | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
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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