The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 23

Let him die if he wants to; we will divide the property.’

Who acts: you, landlord, we · What happens: let, die, want, divide · To what, where: landlord, property

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, landlord, we), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wants	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wants	nsubj
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 wants	case
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 divide	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 divide	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 divide	aux
11	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 property	det
13	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 divide	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	landlord	tree rules
2	die	infinitive	landlord not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	want a condition, not said to happen	present	landlord		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	divide	future	we	the property	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=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 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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