The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 147

‘Do not talk like that, dear child,’ replied the lady; ‘you do not know all that must be done to secure your happiness, however much it costs me.

Who acts: you, happiness · What happens: not talk, reply, not know, do, secure, cost · To what, where: dear child, lady, that, happiness, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, happiness), 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 talk	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 talk	advmod
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 talk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 child	punct
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 child	amod
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 replied	punct
12	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 talk	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lady	det
14	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 replied	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 talk	conj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 done	det:predet
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 done	obj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	aux:pass
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 know	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 secure	mark
27	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 done	advcl
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 happiness	nmod:poss
29	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 secure	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 costs	punct
31	however	however	ADV	_	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADV	_	34 costs	advmod
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 costs	nsubj
34	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 done	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 costs	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative · do-support	you not said here	dear child		like that	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reply speech: assert	past		the lady			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic
3	not know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do	must · passive		that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality
5	secure	to-infinitive		your happiness			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition happiness=Theme
6	cost	present	happiness		me		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme i=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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