The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 25

You may imagine how much these had cost; but then nothing could have been more brilliant, except the beauty of the Princess!

Who acts: You, nothing · What happens: imagine, cost, be · To what, where: much, these

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (You, nothing), 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 imagine	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 imagine	aux
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	obj
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 cost	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cost	aux
8	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 much	acl:relcl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 brilliant	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 brilliant	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 brilliant	advmod
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 brilliant	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 brilliant	aux
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 brilliant	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 brilliant	cop
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 brilliant	advmod
17	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 imagine	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 beauty	punct
19	except	except	ADP	_	21 beauty	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beauty	det
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brilliant	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Princess	det
24	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beauty	nmod
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	imagine	may	You	much			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme
2	cost	past · perfect · passive		these			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
3	is	could · perfect	nothing		then	brilliant property	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 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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