The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 52

It was commanded that the plan of starving you by degrees should be kept a secret; but the sentence of putting out your eyes was entered on the books.

Who acts: plan, sentence · What happens: command, starve, keep, put out, enter · To what, where: subject, you, plan, eyes, sentence, books · 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 (plan, sentence), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 commanded	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 commanded	aux:pass
3	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 kept	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 starving	mark
8	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 plan	acl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 starving	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 degrees	case
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 starving	obl
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 kept	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 kept	aux:pass
14	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commanded	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 secret	det
16	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 entered	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 entered	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sentence	det
20	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 entered	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 putting	mark
22	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sentence	acl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 putting	compound:prt
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 eyes	nmod:poss
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 putting	obj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 entered	aux:pass
27	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 commanded	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 books	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 books	det
30	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 entered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	command	past · passive		subject			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: subject=Eventuality
2	starve	gerund	the plan not said here	you		by degrees	tree rules
3	keep	should · passive		the plan			vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme secret=Attribute
4	put out	gerund	the sentence not said here	your eyes			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal
5	enter	past · passive		the sentence	the books		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination

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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