The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 55
‘You have the whole palace to search in; but remember, if you fail it will cost you your head.’
Who acts: You, palace · What happens: have, search, remember, fail, cost · To what, where: whole palace, head, you
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, palace), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 palace | amod |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 search | mark |
| 8 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 palace | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 search | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 remember | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 remember | cc |
| 12 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fail | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 fail | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 fail | nsubj |
| 16 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 remember | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cost | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 cost | aux |
| 19 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fail | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 cost | iobj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cost | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | the whole palace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient | ||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | You not said here | the whole palace not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | remember | infinitive | You not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cost | future | palace | your head | you | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary head=Value |
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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