The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 86

The man was amazed, and said that this would not only cost her her life, but would also bring upon him a greater misfortune than the one he was already under.

Who acts: man, this · What happens: be, say, not cost, bring · To what, where: life, Spirit, greater misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, this), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 amazed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	cop
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cost	mark
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 cost	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cost	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cost	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 cost	advmod
13	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 bring	cc
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	aux
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 bring	advmod
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 amazed	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 misfortune	det
25	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 misfortune	amod
26	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 misfortune	nmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 under	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 under	cop
32	already	already	ADV	_	33 under	advmod
33	under	under	ADP	_	29 one	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the man			amazed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not cost	would	this	Spirit's life	Spirit		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary life=Value
4	bring	would	the man not said here	a greater misfortune		upon man; than the one	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misfortune=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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