The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 56

He was ready to die with you, and restored you to life again; but you killed him when he was sleeping, and shall receive your deserts.’

Who acts: King, you · What happens: be, die, restore, kill, sleep, receive · To what, where: you, life, King, deserts

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, you), 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	3 ready	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	cop
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 die	mark
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ready	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 die	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 restored	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 restored	cc
10	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 restored	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 life	case
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 restored	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	10 restored	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 killed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 killed	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 killed	nsubj
18	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	parataxis
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 killed	obj
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 sleeping	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sleeping	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sleeping	aux
23	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 killed	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 receive	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 receive	cc
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 receive	aux
27	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ready	conj
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 deserts	nmod:poss
29	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 receive	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	King				ready property	tree rules
2	die	to-infinitive	King not said here				with you	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	restore	past	King not said here	you	life	again		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to life=Recipient
4	kill	past	you	King				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	sleep	past · progressive	King					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	receive	shall	King not said here	your deserts				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Theme

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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