The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 8
‘But surely there are great numbers of people in your land, if no one ever dies?’
Who acts: one · What happens: be
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 (one), 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 | _ | 18 dies | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 are | cc |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 are | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 are | expl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dies | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 numbers | amod |
| 7 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 are | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 numbers | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 land | nmod:poss |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 people | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dies | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 dies | mark |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dies | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 one | advmod |
| 18 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 dies | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no one | die property | tree rules |
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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