The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 26

You have heard that as long as I was young no man ever brought an army against me without it costing him dear.

Who acts: You, I, young man, army · What happens: hear, be, bring, cost · To what, where: that, army, man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I, young man, army), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 heard	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 young	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 young	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 young	cop
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	nsubj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 brought	advmod
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 army	det
16	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obj
17	against	against	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 brought	obl
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	21 costing	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 costing	nsubj
21	costing	cost	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 brought	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 costing	obj
23	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 costing	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	You	that		long property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
2	is	past	I			young property	tree rules
3	bring	past	no young man	a army	ever	against me	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme against i=Destination
4	cost	gerund	army	man		dear property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme he=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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