The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 4
It will also cost you something, as some very expensive books are required.’
Who acts: clerk · What happens: cost, require · To what, where: something, you, expensive books
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk), 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 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 cost | advmod |
| 4 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cost | iobj |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 cost | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 required | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 required | mark |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 books | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 expensive | advmod |
| 11 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 books | amod |
| 12 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 required | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 required | aux:pass |
| 14 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cost | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cost | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | future | clerk | something | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary something=Value | |||
| 2 | require | present · passive | some expensive books | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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