The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 113
‘The lamp!’ said the king, ‘or it will cost you your heads.’
Who acts: lamp · What happens: say, cost · To what, where: king, heads, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp), 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 lamp | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lamp | det |
| 3 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 lamp | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lamp | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ‘ | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | _ | 8 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 cost | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 cost | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cost | aux |
| 14 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 cost | iobj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cost | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cost | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lamp | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cost | future | lamp | your heads | 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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