The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 80

‘Ah! little one,’ said the Queen, ‘it cost me dear to save your life.

Who acts: Queen, dancing · What happens: say, cost, save · To what, where: me, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, dancing), 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 one	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	5 one	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queen	det
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cost	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 cost	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cost	nsubj
14	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cost	iobj
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cost	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 save	mark
18	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cost	advcl
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 life	nmod:poss
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 save	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	cost	past	dancing		me	dear property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme i=Value
3	save	to-infinitive	dancing not said here	your life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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