The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 20

The soldiers were dreadfully angry when they heard this, for of course they did not know that the boy was really a prince; and they soon began to lay their heads together to plot his ruin.

Who acts: soldiers, boy · What happens: be, hear, not know, begin, lay, plot · To what, where: this, prince, heads, ruin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soldiers	det
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 angry	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	dreadfully	dreadfully	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	parataxis
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 for	fixed
13	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 for	fixed
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 prince	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 prince	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 prince	cop
22	really	really	ADV	_	24 prince	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 prince	det
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 know	ccomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 began	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 began	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 began	advmod
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lay	mark
31	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heads	nmod:poss
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 lay	obj
34	together	together	ADV	_	31 lay	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 plot	mark
36	plot	plot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 lay	advcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 ruin	nmod:poss
38	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 plot	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soldiers		angry, dreadfully property	tree rules
2	hear	past	soldiers = soldier	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	not know	past · do-support	soldiers = soldier			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	the boy	a prince		tree rules
5	begin	past	soldiers = soldier		soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	lay	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	soldiers's heads	together property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Result
7	plot	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	boy's ruin		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme
8	ruin		boy			nom ruin «state 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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