The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 144
I want no other happiness but to live and die beside you.
Who acts: I · What happens: want, live, die · To what, where: other happiness
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 happiness | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 happiness | amod |
| 5 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 want | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 live | cc |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 want | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 die | cc |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 live | conj |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 die | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | no other happiness | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot happiness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die | infinitive | I not said here | beside you | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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