The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 59
And the third: ‘She shall die a most miserable death.’
Who acts: first · What happens: die · To what, where: miserable death
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 third | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 6 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 die | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 third | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 death | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 miserable | advmod |
| 11 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 death | amod |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 third | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 third | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | shall | first | a miserable death | 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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