The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 8
‘It is better that one should die than two,’ said he.
Who acts: one, Ritter · What happens: be, die, say · 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 (one, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 two | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 die | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | should | that one | than two | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ritter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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