The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 130

The Queen was well satisfied with the idea, but the armor-bearer, who had overheard everything, being much attached to his young master, went straight to him and revealed the whole plot.

Who acts: Queen, armor bearer · What happens: be, overhear, attach, go, reveal · To what, where: everything, husband, whole plot

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, armor bearer), 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 Queen	det
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 satisfied	advmod
5	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 idea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 idea	det
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 satisfied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bearer	det
12	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bearer	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 armor	punct
14	bearer	bearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 overheard	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 overheard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 overheard	aux
18	overheard	overhear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 bearer	acl:relcl
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 overheard	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 much	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 much	cop
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 overheard	conj
23	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 much	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 master	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 master	nmod:poss
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 master	amod
27	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attached	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 satisfied	parataxis
30	straight	straight	ADV	_	32 him	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 revealed	cc
34	revealed	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 went	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 plot	det
36	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 plot	amod
37	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 revealed	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Queen			with the idea; satisfied, well property	tree rules
2	overhear	past · perfect	the armor bearer	everything			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
3	is	gerund	the armor bearer not said here			much property	tree rules
4	attach	participle				to bearer's young master	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to master=Co-Patient
5	go	past	the armor bearer		husband		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
6	reveal	past	the armor bearer not said here	the whole plot			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Topic

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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