The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 86

How could I ever go on living without her?’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, live

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 living	mark
7	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 go	advcl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 living	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	could	I				ever		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	gerund	I not said here					without woman	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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