The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 51

‘Ah, dear father,’ she replied, ‘I have come home in great grief; my husband fell ill on the voyage quite suddenly, and died, and if the good captain had not given me help, I should have died too.

Who acts: lady, I, husband · What happens: reply, come, fall, die, not give · To what, where: great grief, voyage, good captain, me

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 (lady, I, husband), 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	_	5 father	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 replied	parataxis
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 grief	case
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grief	amod
18	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 husband	nmod:poss
21	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	parataxis
23	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fell	xcomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 voyage	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 voyage	det
26	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fell	obl
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 suddenly	advmod
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 died	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 died	cc
31	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fell	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 died	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 died	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 given	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 captain	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 captain	amod
37	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 given	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 given	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 given	advmod
40	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 died	advcl
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 given	iobj
42	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 given	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 given	punct
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 died	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 died	aux
46	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 died	aux
47	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 fell	conj
48	too	too	ADV	_	47 died	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	lady					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present · perfect	I			great grief	home property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grief=Location
3	fall	past	my husband			the voyage	ill, suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location
4	die	past	my husband not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not give a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the good captain	me			tree rules
6	die	should · perfect	I					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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