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The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 44

“Again, when ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, like a false traitor, you aided and entertained them, though you knew them to be servants of a prince lately in open war against his Imperial Majesty.

Who acts: ambassadors, you · What happens: arrive, aid, entertain, know, be · To what, where: Court, ambassadors, open war, servants · 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 (ambassadors, 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

punctadvmodpunctadvmodnsubjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctcasedetamodoblpunctnsubjconjccconjobjpunctmarknsubjconjobjmarkcopccompcasedetnmodadvmodcaseamodoblcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctroot“PUNCTAgainADV,PUNCTwhenADVambassadorsNOUNarrivedVERBfromADPtheDETCourtNOUNofADPBlefuscuPROPN,PUNCTlikeADPaDETfalseADJtraitorNOUN,PUNCTyouPRONaidedVERBandCCONJentertainedVERBthemPRON,PUNCTthoughSCONJyouPRONknewVERBthemPRONtoPARTbeAUXservantsNOUNofADPaDETprinceNOUNlatelyADVinADPopenADJwarNOUNagainstADPhisPRONImperialADJMajestyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 arrivedpunct
2AgainagainADV_6 arrivedadvmod
3,,PUNCT_2 Againpunct
4whenwhenADVPronType=Int6 arrivedadvmod
5ambassadorsambassadorNOUNNumber=Plur6 arrivednsubj
6arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7fromfromADP_9 Courtcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Courtdet
9CourtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing6 arrivedobl
10ofofADP_11 Blefuscucase
11BlefuscuBlefuscuPROPNNumber=Sing9 Courtnmod
12,,PUNCT_16 traitorpunct
13likelikeADP_16 traitorcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 traitordet
15falsefalseADJDegree=Pos16 traitoramod
16traitortraitorNOUNNumber=Sing6 arrivedobl
17,,PUNCT_19 aidedpunct
18youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs19 aidednsubj
19aidedaidVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 arrivedconj
20andandCCONJ_21 entertainedcc
21entertainedentertainVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 aidedconj
22themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 entertainedobj
23,,PUNCT_26 knewpunct
24thoughthoughSCONJ_26 knewmark
25youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs26 knewnsubj
26knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 aidedconj
27themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs26 knewobj
28totoPART_30 servantsmark
29bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf30 servantscop
30servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur26 knewccomp
31ofofADP_33 princecase
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 princedet
33princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing30 servantsnmod
34latelylatelyADV_26 knewadvmod
35ininADP_37 warcase
36openopenADJDegree=Pos37 waramod
37warwarNOUNNumber=Sing26 knewobl
38againstagainstADP_41 Majestycase
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 Majestynmod:poss
40ImperialimperialADJDegree=Pos41 Majestyamod
41MajestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing37 warnmod
42..PUNCT_6 arrivedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrive in a quotepastambassadorsthe Court of Blefuscuagainlike a false traitorvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from court=Initial_Location
2aid in a quotepastyouvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3entertain in a quotepastyou not said hereambassadors = ambassadorvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4know in a quotepastyouambassadors = ambassadoropen war against Blefuscu's Imperial Majestylately propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5is a in a quoteto-infinitiveservantsof a princetree rules

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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