The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 293
Oh, I shall die of shame and despair!’
Who acts: I · What happens: die
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 die | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 die | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 die | aux |
| 5 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shame | case |
| 7 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 die | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 despair | cc |
| 9 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shame | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | shall | I | of shame and despair | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of shame=Causer |
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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