The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 47
But Reldresal, secretary for private affairs, who has always proved himself your friend suggested that if his Majesty would please to spare your life and only give orders to put out both your eyes, justice might in some measure be satisfied.
Who acts: private affairs, friend, Majesty, Reldresal · What happens: prove, suggest, please, spare, give, put out · To what, where: Reldresal, life, orders, eyes, measure
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 (private affairs, friend, Majesty, Reldresal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 44 satisfied | cc |
| 2 | Reldresal | Reldresal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 secretary | punct |
| 4 | secretary | secretary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Reldresal | appos |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 affairs | case |
| 6 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 affairs | amod |
| 7 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 secretary | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 proved | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 proved | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 proved | aux |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 proved | advmod |
| 12 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 affairs | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 proved | obj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 suggested | nsubj |
| 16 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 proved | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 please | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 please | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 please | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 please | aux |
| 22 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 suggested | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 spare | mark |
| 24 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 please | xcomp |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spare | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 give | cc |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 give | advmod |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 suggested | conj |
| 30 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 give | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 put | mark |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 give | advcl |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 put | compound:prt |
| 34 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 36 eyes | cc:preconj |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 put | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 justice | punct |
| 38 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 affairs | conj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 satisfied | aux |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 measure | case |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 measure | det |
| 42 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 satisfied | obl |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 satisfied | cop |
| 44 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · perfect | private affairs and justice | Reldresal | always property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | past | your friend | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | please a condition, not said to happen | would | friend's Majesty | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive | friend's Majesty not said here | your life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 5 | give | present | your friend not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put out | to-infinitive | your friend not said here | your eyes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal | ||||
| 7 | is | might | Reldresal | some measure | satisfied property | tree 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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