The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 8
Moreover, though I had taken away his fleet he was grateful to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace.
Who acts: I, fleet · What happens: take away, be, do, make · To what, where: me, Emperor, peace
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 (I, fleet), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 taken | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fleet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grateful | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grateful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grateful | cop |
| 12 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 taken | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 grateful | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 offices | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 offices | amod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 offices | amod |
| 18 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 grateful | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 grateful | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | obj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 making | mark |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 done | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 peace | det |
| 26 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past · perfect | I | away, moreover property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Emperor's fleet | me | for many good offices; grateful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | I | Emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | I not said here | the peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
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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