The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 126

‘My wife is dearer to me than anything else in the world, and it is not my brother’s fault that I am not dead long ago.’

Who acts: wife, world, I · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: me, fault

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, world, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 dearer	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dearer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dearer	cop
5	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dearer	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 dearer	obl
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 anything	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fault	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fault	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fault	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fault	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 fault	advmod
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 brother	nmod:poss
20	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fault	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 brother	case
22	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dearer	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 dead	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 dead	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dead	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dead	advmod
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fault	advcl
28	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ago	advmod
29	ago	ago	ADV	_	27 dead	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dearer	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 dearer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	My wife		me	than anything; dear property	tree rules
2	not is a	present	world	my brother's fault			tree rules
3	not is	present	I			ago, dead property	tree rules

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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