The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 20

And without them he would have died in the snow.

Who acts: snow · What happens: die

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (snow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 died	cc
2	without	without	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 died	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 died	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 died	aux
7	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 snow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snow	det
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 died	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would · perfect	snow					without friends = friend; in the snow	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in snow=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 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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