The Aesop for Children, The Cock and the Jewel, sentence 3

No doubt you are very costly and he who lost you would give a great deal to find you.

Who acts: doubt, Cock, you · What happens: be, lose, give, find · To what, where: great deal, you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cock and the Jewel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, Cock, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 doubt	det
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 costly	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 costly	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 costly	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 costly	advmod
6	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lost	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 costly	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 give	aux
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lost	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 deal	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deal	amod
16	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 deal	acl
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 find	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 costly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	no doubt		costly property	tree rules
2	lose	past	Cock			tree rules
3	give	would	you	a great deal		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	you		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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