The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 36

I would rather be a poor man than have to blush before him.’

Who acts: I, poor man · What happens: be, have, blush · To what, where: poor man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, poor 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 man	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 man	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 blush	mark
11	blush	blush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 blush	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	would	I	a poor man		tree rules
2	have	present	a poor man not said here			tree rules
3	blush	to-infinitive	a poor man not said here		before prince	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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