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title: The man was amazed, and said that this would not only cost her her l… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man was amazed, and said that this would not only cost her her life, but would also bring upon him a greater misfortune than the one he was already under. Who acts: man, this. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 86

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The man was amazed, and said that this would not only cost her her life, but would also bring upon him a greater misfortune than the one he was already under.

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**Who acts:** man, this · **What happens:** be, say, not cost, bring · **To what, where:** life, Spirit, greater misfortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:33:86
# text = The man was amazed, and said that this would not only cost her her life, but would also bring upon him a greater misfortune than the one he was already under.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	already	already	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **cost** | would | this | Spirit's life | Spirit |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme she=Beneficiary life=Value |
| 4 | **bring** | would | the man *not said here* | a greater misfortune |  |  |  | upon man; than the one | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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