The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 12
At the same time she was willing to do the same, and if he died first to be buried with him.
Who acts: leader, King · What happens: be, do, die, bury · To what, where: same
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 (leader, King), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 willing | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 willing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | cop |
| 7 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 willing | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 died | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 willing | conj |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 died | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 buried | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 buried | aux:pass |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 died | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 buried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | leader | time | willing property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | leader not said here | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | die a condition, not said to happen | past | King | first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | bury | to-infinitive · passive | King not said here | with King | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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