The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 48
Therefore his Imperial Majesty, placing great confidence in your valor and strength, has commanded me to set the case before you.”
Who acts: Imperial Majesty · What happens: place, command, set · To what, where: great confidence, valor, me, case · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Imperial Majesty), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 Majesty | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Majesty | amod |
| 4 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 placing | punct |
| 6 | placing | place | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Majesty | acl |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 confidence | amod |
| 8 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placing | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 valor | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 valor | nmod:poss |
| 11 | valor | valor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placing | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strength | cc |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 valor | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 commanded | punct |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 commanded | aux |
| 16 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 placing | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 commanded | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 set | mark |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 commanded | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 case | det |
| 21 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obj |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 commanded | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | empire's Imperial Majesty not said here | great confidence | your valor and strength | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme in valor=Destination | |||
| 2 | command | present · perfect | me | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | the case | before you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme before you=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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