The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter II, sentence 9
Moreover, six of his Majesty’s greatest scholars were employed to teach me their language, so that soon I was able to converse after a fashion with the Emperor, who often honored me with his visits.
Who acts: I, fashion, colonel · What happens: employ, teach, be, converse, honor, visit · To what, where: six, language, me
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fashion, colonel), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 11 employed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 scholars | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 scholars | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Majesty | case |
| 8 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 scholars | amod |
| 9 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 employed | obl |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 employed | aux:pass |
| 11 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 teach | mark |
| 13 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 employed | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 teach | obj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 language | nmod:poss |
| 16 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 teach | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 able | mark |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 able | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 teach | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 converse | mark |
| 25 | converse | converse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 fashion | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fashion | det |
| 28 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 converse | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Emperor | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Emperor | det |
| 31 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fashion | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 honored | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 honored | nsubj |
| 34 | often | often | ADV | _ | 35 honored | advmod |
| 35 | honored | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 honored | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 visits | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 visits | nmod:poss |
| 39 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 honored | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | six | of colonel's Majesty's greatest scholars; moreover property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | scholars's language | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient language=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | able, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | converse speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | after a fashion with the Emperor | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | honor | past | a fashion with the Emperor | me | with colonel's visits; often property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 6 | visit | colonel | nom visit «act 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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