The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 141
He could neither live nor die; he suffered horribly, and called loudly on Death to put an end to his pains.
Who acts: death · What happens: live, die, suffer, call, put, pain · To what, where: Death, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 die | cc |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 suffered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 suffered | nsubj |
| 9 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 10 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 9 suffered | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 suffered | conj |
| 14 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Death | case |
| 16 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 called | advcl |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 pains | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pains | nmod:poss |
| 23 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | could | death | neither property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | death not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | suffer | past | death | horribly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | death not said here | Death | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | put | to-infinitive | death not said here | a end | to death's pains | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal | |||
| 6 | pain | death | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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