The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 3
The emperor was not much pleased at the thought of such a match for his only child, but being very polite, he only said:
Who acts: emperor, man · What happens: be, say, think · To what, where: thought, match · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, man), 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 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | amod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 thought | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thought | det |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 match | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 match | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 match | det |
| 13 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 child | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 child | nmod:poss |
| 16 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 child | amod |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 match | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 polite | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 polite | cc |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 polite | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 polite | advmod |
| 22 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 said | advmod |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | parataxis |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the emperor | the thought of such match for man's only child | pleased property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | the emperor not said here | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think | such match for man's only child | nom thought «cognition 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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