Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 18
"This wicked deed will cost you your life," they said. "
Who acts: wicked deed, people · What happens: cost, say · To what, where: life, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked deed, people), 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 cost | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 deed | det |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deed | amod |
| 4 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | aux |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 cost | iobj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost in a quote | future | this wicked deed | your life | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary life=Value | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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