The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 20

I shall have to tell him what danger I have been in, and how, without your help, I should certainly have lost my life.

Who acts: I, your · What happens: have, tell, be, lose, help · To what, where: serpent, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, your), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 in	nsubj
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 in	nsubj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 in	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 in	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 in	cop
12	in	in	ADV	_	5 tell	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 lost	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 lost	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 help	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 help	nmod:poss
19	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
23	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	25 lost	advmod
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 have	parataxis
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 life	nmod:poss
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	shall	I				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here		serpent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	present · perfect				in property	tree rules
4	lose	should · perfect	I	my life		without your help; certainly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
5	help		your				nom help «act 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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