The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 231
‘Snowdrop shall die,’ she cried; ‘yes, though it cost me my own life.’
Who acts: Snowdrop, rage · What happens: die, cry, cost · To what, where: own life, me
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snowdrop, rage), 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 die | punct |
| 2 | Snowdrop | snowdrop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 die | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | aux |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 11 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 die | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cost | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 cost | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | nsubj |
| 15 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 die | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | iobj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 life | amod |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cost | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | shall | Snowdrop | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | SNOWDROP | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cost | past | rage | my own life | me | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value |
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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