The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 15

‘I shall have to go into her grave with her,’ he answered, ‘if I outlive her, but my love is so great that I do not think of the risk.’

Who acts: I, King, love, my · What happens: have, go, answer, outlive, be, not think · To what, where: grave, vow

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 (I, King, love, my), 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 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grave	nmod:poss
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 outlive	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 outlive	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 outlive	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 outlive	nsubj
20	outlive	outlive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 answered	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 outlive	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 great	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 great	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 love	nmod:poss
25	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 great	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 great	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 great	advmod
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 outlive	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 think	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 think	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 think	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 think	advmod
33	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 great	advcl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 risk	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 risk	det
36	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 think	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	shall	I				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	I not said here		vow's grave	with vow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into grave=Initial_Location
3	answer speech: assert	past	King				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	outlive a condition, not said to happen	present	I	vow			tree rules
5	is	present	my love			great property	tree rules
6	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I			of the risk	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	love		my				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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