The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3, sentence 7
I ordered you to be put to death because I thought your dream portended the loss of my crown.
Who acts: I, dream, your, my · What happens: order, put, think, portend, dream, crown · To what, where: you, loss · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dream, your, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 put | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 put | aux:pass |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | advcl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dream | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 portended | nsubj |
| 14 | portended | portend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 loss | det |
| 16 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 portended | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 crown | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 crown | nmod:poss |
| 19 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loss | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | I | you | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | portend | past | your dream | the loss of my crown | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dream | your | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | crown | my | nom crown «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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