The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 77

Whatever she may say, my heart and desire will remain the same, and though I were to lose my life for it, I couldn’t consent to this exchange.’

Who acts: Grannonia, heart, I · What happens: say, remain, lose, not consent · To what, where: Whatever, same, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia, heart, 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	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 say	obj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remain	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remain	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 desire	cc
9	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heart	conj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 remain	aux
11	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 remain	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 consent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 consent	cc
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 lose	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 lose	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lose	aux
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lose	mark
20	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 consent	advcl
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lose	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lose	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lose	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 consent	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 consent	aux
28	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 consent	advmod
29	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 exchange	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 exchange	det
32	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 consent	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	may	Grannonia	Whatever		tree rules
2	remain	future	my heart and desire	the same		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute
3	lose	past	I	my life	for heart	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
4	not consent	could	I		to this exchange	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to exchange=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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