The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 93
You now know the price I paid for this faithless creature.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, pay · To what, where: price
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 know | advmod |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 price | det |
| 5 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 paid | nsubj |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 price | acl:relcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 creature | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 creature | det |
| 10 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 creature | amod |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | the price | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer price=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pay | past | I | the price not said here | for this faithless creature | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent price=Asset for creature=Theme |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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