The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 40
‘It will now cost us a battle for life or death; but do be careful to keep the leaf.’
Who acts: other · What happens: cost, be, keep · To what, where: battle, us, leaf
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 cost | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cost | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cost | advmod |
| 5 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 cost | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 battle | det |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cost | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battle | nmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 death | cc |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 life | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 careful | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 careful | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 careful | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 careful | cop |
| 17 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cost | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 keep | mark |
| 19 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 careful | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leaf | det |
| 21 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keep | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cost | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | future | other | a battle | us | now | for life or death | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme we=Beneficiary battle=Value | |
| 2 | is | present · do-support | other not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | other not said here | the leaf | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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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