The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 30
About three weeks after this exploit there arrived an embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of peace, which was soon concluded, on terms very advantageous to our Emperor.
Who acts: three weeks · What happens: arrive, conclude, offer · To what, where: embassy, Blefuscu, peace, terms
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 (three weeks), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 three | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 weeks | nummod |
| 3 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 exploit | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 exploit | det |
| 6 | exploit | exploit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weeks | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 arrived | advmod |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 embassy | det |
| 10 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Blefuscu | case |
| 12 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 offers | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 offers | case |
| 15 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 offers | amod |
| 16 | offers | offer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrived | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 peace | case |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 offers | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 concluded | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 concluded | aux:pass |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 concluded | advmod |
| 23 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 peace | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 terms | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 terms | case |
| 26 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 concluded | obl |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 advantageous | advmod |
| 28 | advantageous | advantageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 terms | amod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Emperor | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 Emperor | nmod:poss |
| 31 | Emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 advantageous | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | three weeks after this exploit | a embassy | Blefuscu; there | with humble offers of peace | tree rules | ||
| 2 | conclude | past · passive | peace | terms | soon property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer | peace | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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