The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 68
'We have been deceived,' he said, 'and it will cost me my life.'
Who acts: prince, last · What happens: deceive, say, cost · To what, where: We, life, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, last), 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 | _ | 5 deceived | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 deceived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 deceived | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 deceived | aux:pass |
| 5 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 deceived | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 deceived | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cost | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 cost | aux |
| 15 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | iobj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cost | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cost | punct |
| 20 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | present · perfect · passive | We | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cost | future | last | my life | me | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=Value |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/68/