The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 20

Fiordelisa, can you indeed be so lovely and so faithless?’ he sighed, ‘then I may as well die at once!’

Who acts: Fiordelisa, I · What happens: be, sigh, die

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiordelisa, 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	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lovely	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fiordelisa	punct
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lovely	nsubj
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 lovely	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 lovely	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 lovely	advmod
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 faithless	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 faithless	advmod
11	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lovely	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lovely	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 lovely	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sighed	nsubj
15	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 die	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 die	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 die	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 die	aux
21	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 die	cc
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 as	fixed
23	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lovely	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 die	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 lovely	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 lovely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Fiordelisa		indeed, lovely property	tree rules
2	be		Fiordelisa not said here			tree rules
3	sigh	past	Fiordelisa			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die	may	I	then		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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