The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 15

“What price?” answered the king’s son; “only tell me what I can do to heal him.”

Who acts: price · What happens: answer, tell, do, heal · To what, where: son, price · Speech: someone speaks here

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	_	3 price	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 price	det
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 price	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 price	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 heal	mark
21	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 do	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heal	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	what price		the king's son	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			what price = price	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	can	what price = price			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	heal in a quote	to-infinitive	what price = price not said here	price		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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