The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 5

He said to himself that he would certainly die if he stayed in the forest without anything to eat but the roots of grass, which would not keep him alive very long.

Who acts: Irishman, roots · What happens: say, die, stay, eat, not keep · To what, where: Irishman, forest, roots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, roots), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 himself	case
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 said	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 die	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	9 die	advmod
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 stayed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stayed	nsubj
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 die	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 forest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forest	det
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	obl
16	without	without	ADP	_	17 anything	case
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 stayed	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 anything	acl
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 roots	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 roots	det
22	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 grass	case
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 roots	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 keep	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 keep	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 keep	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 keep	advmod
29	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 roots	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 keep	obj
31	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 keep	xcomp
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 keep	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Irishman		Irishman			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	die	would	Irishman				certainly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	Irishman			the forest	without anything	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
4	eat	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here	the roots of grass				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
5	not keep	would	the roots of grass	Irishman			alive, long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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