The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 161

“I feel sure that I shall never come back from this expedition; when I am dead, go to the Princess and tell her that her errand has cost me my life.

Who acts: Charming, you, errand · What happens: feel, not come back, be, go, tell, cost · To what, where: expedition, princess, life, Charming · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming, you, errand), 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	_	3 feel	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 go	advcl
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sure	ccomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 expedition	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 expedition	det
13	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 come	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 dead	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 dead	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 dead	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
20	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 go	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 go	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 cost	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 errand	nmod:poss
29	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cost	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cost	aux
31	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 tell	advcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 cost	iobj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 life	nmod:poss
34	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cost	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present	Charming				sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not come back in a quote	shall	Charming			this expedition		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from expedition=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present	Charming				dead property	tree rules
4	go in a quote	imperative	you not said here				to the Princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to princess=Initial_Location
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		princess			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	cost in a quote	present · perfect	princess's errand	my life	Charming			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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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