The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 13

What if the old man should die and leave her here alone in the solitary cottage deep in the heart of the wood!

Who acts: old man · What happens: die, leave · To what, where: bride, solitary cottage

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 die	obj
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 die	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 die	nsubj
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 die	aux
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 leave	cc
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 die	conj
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 leave	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 leave	advmod
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	9 leave	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 cottage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cottage	det
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cottage	amod
16	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obl
17	deep	deep	ADV	_	20 heart	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 heart	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heart	det
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cottage	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heart	nmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	should	the old man						tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	the old man not said here	bride		the solitary cottage in the heart of the wood; here		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cottage=Location

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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