The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 49
But his Majesty was graciously pleased to say that since the council thought the loss of your eyes too easy a punishment, some other might afterward be inflicted.
Who acts: Majesty, easy punishment · What happens: be, say, think, inflict · To what, where: loss, some · 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 (Majesty, easy punishment), 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 | _ | 6 pleased | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 5 | graciously | graciously | ADV | _ | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 say | mark |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 10 | since | since | ADP | _ | 12 council | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 council | det |
| 12 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obl |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 say | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 loss | det |
| 15 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 loss | nmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 easy | advmod |
| 20 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 punishment | amod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 punishment | det |
| 22 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 inflicted | punct |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 inflicted | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 some | fixed |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 inflicted | aux |
| 27 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 29 inflicted | advmod |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 inflicted | aux:pass |
| 29 | inflicted | inflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 punishment | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | secretary's Majesty | graciously, pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | secretary's Majesty not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | secretary's Majesty not said here | the loss of your eyes | since the council | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot loss=Theme | |||
| 4 | inflict | might · passive | a easy punishment not said here | some | afterward 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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