The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 94
“Very well, little fox; but remember it may cost me my life,” answered the youth.
Who acts: basket, youth · What happens: remember, cost, answer · To what, where: life, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, youth), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fox | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 little | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fox | amod |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 remember | cc |
| 9 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 fox | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cost | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cost | aux |
| 12 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 remember | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cost | iobj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cost | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remember | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fox | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember in a quote | infinitive | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cost in a quote | may | basket | my life | the youth = youth | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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