The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 33
“It will cost you your life, if you do,” answered the father, shaking his head.
Who acts: house, you, father · What happens: cost, do, answer, shake · To what, where: life, you, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, you, father), 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 | _ | 4 cost | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cost | aux |
| 4 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cost | iobj |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cost | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cost | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cost | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 father | det |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaking | punct |
| 18 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaking | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost in a quote | future | house | your life | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shake | gerund | the father not said here | herdsman's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=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 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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