The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 50

And the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, said that as to expense your allowance might be gradually lessened, so that, for want of sufficient food you should grow weak and faint, and die in a few months, when his Majesty’s subjects might cut your flesh from your bones and bury it, leaving the skeleton for the admiration of posterity.

Who acts: secretary, want, subjects, your · What happens: desire, hear, say, expense, lessen, grow · To what, where: allowance, flesh, bones, skeleton, sufficient food, posterity · 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 (secretary, want, subjects, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 secretary	det
3	secretary	secretary	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 desiring	punct
5	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	6 desiring	advmod
6	desiring	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 secretary	appos
7	to	to	PART	_	9 heard	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 heard	aux:pass
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 desiring	xcomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 heard	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 secretary	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 expense	mark
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 expense	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 expense	mark
16	expense	expense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 allowance	nmod:poss
18	allowance	allowance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lessened	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 lessened	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 lessened	aux:pass
21	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	22 lessened	advmod
22	lessened	lessen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 expense	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grow	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 grow	mark
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 so	fixed
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 want	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 want	case
28	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 grow	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 food	case
30	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 food	amod
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 want	nmod
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 grow	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 grow	aux
34	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lessened	conj
35	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grow	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 faint	cc
37	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 weak	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 die	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 die	cc
40	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 expense	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	44 months	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 months	det
43	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 months	amod
44	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 die	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 cut	punct
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	52 cut	advmod
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 Majesty	nmod:poss
48	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 subjects	nmod:poss
49	’s	's	PART	_	48 Majesty	case
50	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 cut	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 cut	aux
52	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	parataxis
53	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 flesh	nmod:poss
54	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 cut	obj
55	from	from	ADP	_	57 bones	case
56	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 bones	nmod:poss
57	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 cut	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 bury	cc
59	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 cut	conj
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 bury	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 leaving	punct
62	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	59 bury	advcl
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 skeleton	det
64	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 leaving	obj
65	for	for	ADP	_	67 admiration	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 admiration	det
67	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 leaving	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 posterity	case
69	posterity	posterity	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 admiration	nmod
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	desire	gerund					humbly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive				again		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»
3	say speech: assert	past	the secretary					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	expense	to-infinitive						tree rules
5	lessen	might · passive		your allowance			gradually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	grow	should	want of sufficient food				weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	die	infinitive				month		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	cut	might	secretary's Majesty's subjects	your flesh	your bones			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset flesh=Product from bone=Material
9	bury	infinitive	secretary's Majesty's subjects not said here	flesh				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	leave	gerund	secretary's Majesty's subjects not said here	the skeleton			for the admiration of posterity	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent skeleton=Theme for admiration=Recipient
11	allowance		your					nom allowance «possession transitive»: poss=agent
12	want			sufficient food				nom want «state transitive»: of=patient
13	admire			posterity				nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=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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