The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 11
‘If he loves me truly,’ she used to say, ‘what use would life be to him then?’
Who acts: King, leader, life · What happens: love, use, say, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, leader, life), 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 | _ | 4 loves | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 loves | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loves | nsubj |
| 4 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 loves | obj |
| 6 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 loves | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 10 used | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 used | nsubj |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 use | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 used | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 use | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 use | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 use | nsubj |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loves | parataxis |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 him | aux |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 him | nsubj |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 him | cop |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 use | obj |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 use | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 loves | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 loves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | King | me | truly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | use | past | leader | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | leader not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | use | present | then | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | life | to King | tree rules |
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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