The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 64

‘You must know,’ answered the black girl, ‘that the Fairy in whose power we both are is my own mother, but you must not betray this secret, for it would cost me my life.

Who acts: You, Fairy, secret · What happens: know, answer, be, not betray, cost · To what, where: black girl, own mother, secret, life, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fairy, secret), 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	_	4 know	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mother	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 mother	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 mother	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 mother	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 power	case
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 power	nmod:poss
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Fairy	nmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 power	conj
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	19 we	appos
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 mother	cop
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 mother	cop
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mother	amod
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 betray	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 betray	cc
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 betray	nsubj
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 betray	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 betray	advmod
31	betray	betray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 answered	parataxis
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 secret	det
33	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 betray	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cost	punct
35	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 cost	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cost	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 cost	aux
38	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 betray	parataxis
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 cost	iobj
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 life	nmod:poss
41	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cost	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know	must	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	answer speech: assert	past			the black girl	tree rules
3	is a	present	the Fairy in the Fairy in the Fairy's power's power	my own mother		tree rules
4	not betray	must	you	this secret		tree rules
5	cost	would	secret	my life	me	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary life=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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