The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 107

Well, that does not cost much; but after that comes supper, and that I can’t hear of.

Who acts: that, I · What happens: not cost, come, not hear · To what, where: supper

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, I), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 cost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 cost	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cost	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cost	advmod
6	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	6 cost	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 comes	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 comes	obl
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cost	parataxis
13	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hear	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hear	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 hear	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hear	nsubj
18	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hear	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 hear	advmod
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 comes	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	20 hear	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not cost	present · do-support	that			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	come	present		supper	after that	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location supper=Theme
3	not hear	can	I			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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