The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 50
“The emperor’s orders are clear, that whoever knew anything of the maiden was to come at once to court.
Who acts: orders, whoever, anything, emperor · What happens: be, know, come, order · To what, where: that, court · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, whoever, anything, emperor), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 clear | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 orders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 emperor | case |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clear | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 clear | cop |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knew | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 knew | obl |
| 10 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clear | conj |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 come | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 maiden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 anything | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knew | ccomp |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 court | mark |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the emperor's orders | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | past | whoever | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | anything | court | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | the emperor | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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