The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 1, sentence 57

It will now cost us a battle for life or death, for this Troll has six heads and is twice as strong as the other, but do be careful to keep the leaf.’

Who acts: instant, Troll · What happens: cost, have, be, keep · To what, where: battle, us, six heads, 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 (instant, Troll), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cost	advmod
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cost	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 battle	det
7	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 battle	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 death	cc
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 battle	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 has	mark
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 Troll	det
15	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	parataxis
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 heads	nummod
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 has	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 strong	cc
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 strong	cop
21	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	23 strong	advmod
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 strong	advmod
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 has	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 other	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 other	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 strong	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 careful	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 careful	cc
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 careful	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 careful	cop
31	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cost	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 keep	mark
33	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 careful	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 leaf	det
35	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 keep	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cost	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cost	future	instant	a battle or death	us	now	for life	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme we=Beneficiary battle=Value
2	have	present	this Troll	six heads				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	is	present	this Troll not said here				as the other; strong, twice property	tree rules
4	is	present · do-support	instant not said here				careful property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	instant 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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