The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 3

But if nobody could tell the exact extent of his sovereignty everybody was aware that the emperor’s right eye laughed, while his left eye wept.

Who acts: nobody, everybody, right eye, left eye · What happens: tell, be, laugh, weep, extend · To what, where: exact extent, sovereignty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobody, everybody, right eye, left eye), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 tell	mark
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 tell	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 extent	det
7	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 extent	amod
8	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sovereignty	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sovereignty	nmod:poss
11	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 extent	nmod
12	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 aware	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 aware	cop
14	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sovereignty	acl:relcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 laughed	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 emperor	det
17	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eye	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 emperor	case
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 eye	amod
20	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 laughed	nsubj
21	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 aware	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wept	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 wept	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 eye	nmod:poss
25	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 eye	amod
26	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wept	nsubj
27	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 laughed	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	could	nobody	the exact extent of emperor's sovereignty		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent extent=Recipient
2	is	past	everybody	emperor's sovereignty not said here	aware property	tree rules
3	laugh	past	the emperor's right eye			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	weep	past	emperor's left eye			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	extend			emperor's sovereignty		nom extent «state 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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