The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 316

It cost Ludovine a great pang to give up the purse, but she remembered that riches would not benefit her if she was still to keep the horns.

Who acts: purse, Ludovine, riches · What happens: cost, give up, remember, not benefit, be · To what, where: Ludovine, purse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purse, Ludovine, riches), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cost	nsubj
2	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cost	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pang	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pang	amod
6	pang	pang	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cost	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cost	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 give	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 purse	det
11	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 remembered	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 remembered	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 remembered	nsubj
15	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cost	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 benefit	mark
17	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 benefit	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 benefit	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 benefit	advmod
20	benefit	benefit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 remembered	ccomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 benefit	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 keep	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 keep	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 keep	cop
25	still	still	ADV	_	27 keep	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 benefit	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horns	det
29	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past	purse		Ludovine			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme ludovine=Beneficiary pang=Value
2	give up	to-infinitive	purse not said here	the purse				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Source
3	remember	past	Ludovine					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not benefit	would	riches		Ludovine			vn benefit-72.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Ludovine			still	keep 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 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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