The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 82

If I should lose you too, what would become of me?’

Who acts: I · What happens: lose, become · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 lose	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lose	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 become	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lose	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 become	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 become	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose a condition, not said to happen	should	I	you					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality
2	become	would						of me	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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