The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 40
This lord and others have accused you of treason, and several councils have been called in the most private manner on your account.
Who acts: your · What happens: accuse, call, account · To what, where: lord, several councils, private manner · 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 (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 lord | det |
| 2 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 others | cc |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lord | conj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 accused | aux |
| 6 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 accused | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 treason | case |
| 9 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accused | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 called | cc |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 councils | amod |
| 13 | councils | council | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 called | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 called | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 called | aux:pass |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 accused | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 manner | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 manner | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 private | advmod |
| 20 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 manner | amod |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 called | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 account | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 account | nmod:poss |
| 24 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 manner | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accuse | present · perfect · passive | this lord and others | of treason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present · perfect · passive | several councils | the private manner on your account | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | account | your | nom account «communication 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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