The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 5
The retainer, however, showed him the letter in which there was written that the queen and her children were to be burned, and everyone then understood that some great treachery had been enacted.
Who acts: retainer, everyone · What happens: show, write, burn, understand, enact · To what, where: letter, king, queen, great treachery
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (retainer, everyone), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 retainer | det |
| 2 | retainer | retainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 retainer | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 showed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 letter | det |
| 9 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 showed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 written | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 written | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 letter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 burned | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 children | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 queen | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 burned | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 burned | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 burned | aux:pass |
| 24 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 written | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 understood | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 understood | cc |
| 27 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 understood | nsubj |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 understood | advmod |
| 29 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 showed | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 enacted | mark |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 treachery | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 treachery | amod |
| 33 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 enacted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 enacted | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 enacted | aux:pass |
| 36 | enacted | enact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 understood | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the retainer | the letter | king | however property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient letter=Topic | ||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the letter; there | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in which=Destination | |||||
| 3 | burn | past · passive | the queen and retainer's children | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | understand | past | everyone | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | enact | past · perfect · passive | some great treachery | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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