The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 52
He was at his death-bed and can tell you everything.’
Who acts: husband · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: death bed, everything, you · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bed | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 death | punct |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | aux |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bed | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 tell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bed | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 bed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | husband | husband's death bed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | can | husband not said here | everything | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient everything=Topic |
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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