The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 9
My father is old, and if he dies I shall inherit his goods.’
Who acts: father, faith, I · What happens: be, die, inherit · To what, where: goods
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 (father, faith, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 inherit | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 inherit | cc |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 dies | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dies | nsubj |
| 9 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 inherit | advcl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 inherit | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 inherit | aux |
| 12 | inherit | inherit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 old | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 goods | nmod:poss |
| 14 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 inherit | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My father | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die a condition, not said to happen | present | faith | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | inherit | shall | I | faith's goods | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=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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