The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 86

‘Is it possible,’ said she, ‘that you would not care if I died of hunger?

Who acts: ‘, Princess, you, I · What happens: be, say, not care, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, Princess, you, 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	_	4 possible	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 possible	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 possible	nsubj
4	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 possible	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 care	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 care	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 care	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 care	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 care	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 care	advmod
15	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 care	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 hunger	case
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	‘	possible property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Princess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not care	would	you		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	die a condition, not said to happen	past	I	of hunger	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer

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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