The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 13
His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of sprugs (their greatest gold coin) and his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt.
Who acts: Majesty, full length, Majesties · What happens: present, put, keep, hurt, coin · To what, where: me, length
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, full length, Majesties), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 presented | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 purses | case |
| 6 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 purses | nummod |
| 7 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 presented | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sprugs | case |
| 9 | sprugs | sprug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 purses | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 coin | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 coin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 coin | amod |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coin | compound |
| 14 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprugs | nmod |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 coin | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 picture | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 picture | nmod:poss |
| 18 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coin | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 length | case |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 length | amod |
| 21 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picture | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 put | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 put | nsubj:outer |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 put | nsubj |
| 25 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 length | acl:relcl |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 25 put | advmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 put | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gloves | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 gloves | nmod:poss |
| 31 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 one | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 keep | punct |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 keep | mark |
| 34 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 presented | advcl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 keep | obj |
| 36 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 38 hurt | mark |
| 37 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 hurt | aux:pass |
| 38 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 keep | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | Emperor's Majesty | me | with fifty purses of sprugs Majesties's greatest gold coin and Emperor's picture at full length | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | put | past | full length | into one of my gloves; immediately property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | Emperor's Majesty not said here | length | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hurt | gerund · passive | Emperor's Majesty not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | coin | Majesties = majesty | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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