The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 109
‘If I die, I die,’ said the boy, ‘but I will not leave you.’
Who acts: I, boy · What happens: die, say, not leave · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 die | nsubj |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 die | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 leave | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 leave | advmod |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not leave | future | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 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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