The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 95

‘There’s nothing to be done, and after all I suppose one can only die once.’

Who acts: I, one · What happens: do, suppose, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 ’s	expl
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 ’s	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 done	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nothing	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 suppose	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 suppose	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 suppose	obl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 suppose	nsubj
13	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ’s	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 die	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 die	aux
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 die	advmod
17	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 suppose	ccomp
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 die	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’s	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive · passive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»
2	suppose	present	I	after all		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	die	can	one		once property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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