The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 69
The Emperor, advancing toward me from among his courtiers, all most magnificently clad, surveyed me with great admiration, but kept beyond the length of my chain.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: advance, survey, keep · To what, where: courtiers, me, length
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), 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 | 17 surveyed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Emperor | punct |
| 4 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Emperor | acl |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 advancing | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 courtiers | case |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 courtiers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 advancing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clad | punct |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 clad | advmod |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 magnificently | advmod |
| 14 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 15 clad | advmod |
| 15 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Emperor | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Emperor | punct |
| 17 | surveyed | survey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 surveyed | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 admiration | case |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 admiration | amod |
| 21 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surveyed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kept | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 kept | cc |
| 24 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 surveyed | parataxis |
| 25 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 27 length | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 length | det |
| 27 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kept | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 chain | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 chain | nmod:poss |
| 30 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 length | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 surveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | gerund | the Emperor not said here | Emperor's courtiers | toward me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme toward i=Initial_Location from courtier=Destination | |||
| 2 | survey | past | the Emperor | me | with great admiration | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | the length of my chain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond length=Location |
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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