The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 49

I would like before I die to blow three blasts on my hunting horn--one in this room, one on the stairs, and one in the courtyard.’

Who acts: I · What happens: like, die, blow · To what, where: one, three blasts, hunting horn

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). 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	3 like	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 like	aux
3	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 die	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
6	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 like	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 blow	mark
8	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 die	xcomp
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 blasts	nummod
10	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blow	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 horn	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horn	nmod:poss
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horn	compound
14	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blow	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 horn	appos
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 room	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 one	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 stairs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stairs	det
24	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 one	cc
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 die	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 courtyard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 courtyard	det
30	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	would	I			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	die	present	I	one in the courtyard		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	blow	to-infinitive	I not said here	three blasts	my hunting horn	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient

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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