The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 14
“And what price would you pay?”
Who acts: price · What happens: pay
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (price), 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 | _ | 7 pay | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pay | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 pay | obj |
| 4 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pay | nsubj |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | would | price | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Asset |
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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