The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 63
The Emperor and all his Court came out to meet us when we reached the capital; but his great officials would not suffer his Majesty to risk his person by mounting on my body.
Who acts: Emperor, we, great officials · What happens: come out, meet, reach, not suffer, risk, mount · To what, where: us, capital, Majesty, person, body
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor, we, great officials), 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 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Court | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Court | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Court | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | conj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 meet | mark |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | advcl |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | obj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 meet | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 capital | det |
| 16 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 suffer | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 suffer | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 officials | nmod:poss |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 officials | amod |
| 21 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 suffer | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 suffer | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 suffer | advmod |
| 24 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 suffer | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 risk | mark |
| 28 | risk | risk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 suffer | advcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 person | nmod:poss |
| 30 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 risk | obj |
| 31 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 32 mounting | mark |
| 32 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 risk | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 body | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 body | nmod:poss |
| 35 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mounting | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the Emperor and Emperor's Court | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the Emperor and Emperor's Court not said here | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | we | the capital | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not suffer | would | Emperor's great officials | Emperor's Majesty | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer majesty=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | risk | to-infinitive | Emperor's great officials not said here | Emperor's person | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | mount | gerund | Emperor's great officials not said here | my body | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on body=Destination |
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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