The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 39
“You are aware,” he said, “that Skyresh Bolgolam has been your mortal enemy ever since your arrival, and his hatred is increased since your great success against Blefuscu, by which his glory as admiral is obscured.
Who acts: You, Emperor, Skyresh, your · What happens: be, say, increase, obscure, arrive, glory · To what, where: mortal enemy, hatred, glory · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, Emperor, Skyresh, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enemy | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 enemy | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 enemy | mark |
| 12 | Skyresh | Skyresh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 enemy | nsubj |
| 13 | Bolgolam | Bolgolam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Skyresh | flat |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 enemy | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 enemy | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enemy | amod |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 arrival | advmod |
| 20 | since | since | ADP | _ | 22 arrival | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 22 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enemy | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 increased | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 increased | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hatred | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 increased | aux:pass |
| 28 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 enemy | parataxis |
| 29 | since | since | ADP | _ | 32 success | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 success | nmod:poss |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 success | amod |
| 32 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 increased | obl |
| 33 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 Blefuscu | case |
| 34 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 success | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 obscured | punct |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 obscured | obl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 glory | nmod:poss |
| 39 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 obscured | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 admiral | case |
| 41 | admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 glory | nmod |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 obscured | aux:pass |
| 43 | obscured | obscure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 increased | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | Skyresh | your mortal enemy | since your arrival | tree rules | |||
| 4 | increase in a quote | present · passive | Emperor's hatred | since your great success against Blefuscu | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | obscure in a quote | present · passive | Emperor's glory as admiral | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | arrive in a quote | your | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | glory in a quote | Emperor | as admiral | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
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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