The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 65
Now, to lose one’s nose, is worse even than losing one’s ear or one’s finger, and the king hesitated as to whether he should comply.
Who acts: king · What happens: lose, be, hesitate, comply · To what, where: one nose, one ear
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lose | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 lose | mark |
| 4 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 nose | nummod |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 one | case |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 worse | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 worse | cop |
| 10 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 lose | conj |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 losing | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 losing | mark |
| 13 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lose | advcl |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ear | nummod |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 one | case |
| 16 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 losing | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 finger | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 finger | nummod |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 one | case |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ear | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hesitated | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hesitated | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hesitated | nsubj |
| 25 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lose | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 comply | mark |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 31 comply | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 comply | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 comply | aux |
| 31 | comply | comply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hesitated | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | to-infinitive | one nose | now | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | bad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | one ear or one finger | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | hesitate | participle | the king | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | comply | should | king | tree rules |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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