The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 66
‘I would touch none of it if by losing it I should never die.
Who acts: I · What happens: touch, lose, not die · To what, where: none, gold
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 touch | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 touch | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 touch | aux |
| 4 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 touch | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 none | nmod |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 losing | mark |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 losing | mark |
| 10 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 touch | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 losing | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 die | advmod |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 touch | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | would | I | none | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme none=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose a condition, not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | gold | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not die | should | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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