The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 15
Terrible as this death would be,’ added the Prince, ‘it would be sweeter than life if I had lost your love.’
Who acts: death, I, your · What happens: add, be, lose, love · To what, where: Prince, love
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, I, your), 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 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 be | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 death | det |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Terrible | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Terrible | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweeter | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweeter | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sweeter | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sweeter | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sweeter | cop |
| 17 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 added | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sweeter | obl |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 lost | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lost | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 added | advcl |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 love | nmod:poss |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrible | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | would | death | than life; sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | I | your love | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | love | your | nom love «feeling 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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