The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 108
If you fail it will cost you not only the crown but you life also.'
Who acts: you, crown · What happens: fail, cost, life · To what, where: crown, you
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, crown), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 fail | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cost | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | aux |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 cost | iobj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 crown | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 crown | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 life | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 life | nsubj |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crown | conj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 crown | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cost | future | crown | the crown but life | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary crown=Value | |||
| 3 | life | you | tree rules |
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.
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