Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 82
She dared not speak, at the cost of her brothers' lives.
Who acts: Eliza · What happens: speak, cost · To what, where: cost, lives · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speak | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 dared | advmod |
| 4 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cost | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 cost | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cost | det |
| 8 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speak | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lives | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lives | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cost | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Eliza | the cost of Eliza's brothers's lives | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cost | Eliza's brothers's lives | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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: «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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