The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 55

The princess wept bitterly, but they told her that it would cost her her life if she did not say that the two brothers had won all the treasures.

Who acts: princess, brothers, Grip · What happens: weep, tell, cost, not say, win · To what, where: princess, life, two brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, brothers, Grip), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	3 wept	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cost	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cost	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cost	aux
13	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	ccomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cost	iobj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cost	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 say	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 say	advmod
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cost	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 won	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 brothers	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 brothers	nummod
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 won	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 won	aux
27	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 say	ccomp
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 treasures	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 treasures	det
30	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 won	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the princess			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	brothers = brother		princess		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	cost	would	Grip	princess's life	princess		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary life=Value
4	not say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	win	past · perfect · passive		the two brothers			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary treasure=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 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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