The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 34
This enterprise has already cost the lives of many, and will certainly be your death as well.’
Who acts: enterprise · What happens: cost, be · To what, where: lives, death
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enterprise), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 enterprise | det |
| 2 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cost | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 cost | advmod |
| 5 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lives | det |
| 7 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cost | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 many | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lives | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 death | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 death | cc |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 death | aux |
| 13 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 16 death | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 death | cop |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cost | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 16 death | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cost | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | this enterprise | the lives of many | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme life=Value | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | your death | certainly property | tree rules |
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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