The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 61

He stuck to his old speech, ‘It is better that one life should be lost than two.’

Who acts: Ritter · What happens: stick, be, lose, speak · To what, where: one life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Ritter), 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	2 stuck	nsubj
2	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 speech	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 speech	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speech	amod
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stuck	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 better	expl
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 better	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stuck	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 lost	mark
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 life	nummod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 lost	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 lost	aux:pass
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 better	advcl
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 two	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 lost	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stuck	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 stuck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stick	past	Ritter		to Ritter's old speech	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to speech=Co-Patient
2	is	present			good property	tree rules
3	lose	should · passive		one life	than two	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	speak		Ritter			nom speech «communication 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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