The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 125

Ah! without it he would be alive now, and my father and mother would not in their old age be bowed to the earth with shame and grief!

Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: be, bow · To what, where: father, earth, old age

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 alive	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alive	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 alive	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 alive	cop
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 alive	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bowed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bowed	cc
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bowed	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 bowed	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 age	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 age	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 age	nmod:poss
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 age	amod
21	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bowed	obl
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 bowed	aux:pass
23	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 alive	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 earth	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bowed	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 shame	case
28	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 earth	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 grief	cc
30	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shame	conj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Rosimond				now	without experience; alive property	tree rules
2	bow	would · passive		my father and mother	the earth with shame and grief		in things's old age		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to earth=Recipient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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