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title: This enterprise has already cost the lives of many, and will certain… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This enterprise has already cost the lives of many, and will certainly be your death as well.’ Who acts: enterprise. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 34

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This enterprise has already cost the lives of many, and will certainly be your death as well.’

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**Who acts:** enterprise · **What happens:** cost, be · **To what, where:** lives, death

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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.

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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:pg641:37:34
# text = This enterprise has already cost the lives of many, and will certainly be your death as well.’
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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