The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 29
And from this time a plot began between himself and those of his Ministers who were my enemies, that nearly ended in my utter destruction.
Who acts: plot, Ministers, that, my · What happens: begin, be, end, destroy · To what, where: enemies, utter destruction
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plot, Ministers, that, my), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plot | det |
| 6 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 began | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 those | cc |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 himself | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Ministers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Ministers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 those | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 enemies | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enemies | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 18 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Ministers | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ended | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 ended | nsubj |
| 21 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 22 ended | advmod |
| 22 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enemies | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 destruction | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 25 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 destruction | amod |
| 26 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ended | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a plot | time | between plot | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | past | plot's Ministers | my enemies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | end | past | that | my utter destruction | nearly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | destroy | my | nom destruction «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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