The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 43
And that, like a false traitor to his Most Serene Majesty, you excused yourself from the service on pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences and destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.
Who acts: you · What happens: excuse, force, destroy · To what, where: that, service, consciences, liberties
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), 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 | _ | 15 excused | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 excused | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 traitor | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 traitor | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 traitor | det |
| 6 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 traitor | amod |
| 7 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 that | appos |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Majesty | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 Majesty | amod |
| 11 | Serene | Serene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Majesty | compound |
| 12 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 traitor | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 excused | nsubj |
| 15 | excused | excuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 excused | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 service | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 service | det |
| 19 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 excused | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 pretence | case |
| 21 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 service | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 unwillingness | case |
| 23 | unwillingness | unwillingness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pretence | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 force | mark |
| 25 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 excused | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 consciences | det |
| 27 | consciences | conscience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 force | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 destroy | cc |
| 29 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 force | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 liberties | det |
| 31 | liberties | liberty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 destroy | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 lives | cc |
| 33 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 liberties | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 36 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 people | amod |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 lives | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 excused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse | past | you | that | the service on pretence of unwillingness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 2 | force | to-infinitive | you not said here | the consciences | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | destroy | infinitive | you not said here | the liberties and lives of a innocent people | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liberty=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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