The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 15

Ah! no one ever thought that Mimi, the daughter of the great Weatherbold, would be killed for the ducal table.’

Who acts: one · What happens: think, kill · To what, where: Mimi · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 thought	advmod
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 killed	mark
8	Mimi	Mimi	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 killed	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 daughter	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 daughter	det
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Mimi	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Weatherbold	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Weatherbold	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Weatherbold	amod
15	Weatherbold	Weatherbold	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 daughter	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Mimi	punct
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 killed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 killed	aux:pass
19	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 thought	ccomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 table	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 table	det
22	ducal	ducal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 table	amod
23	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 killed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	no one				ever		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	kill	would · passive		Mimi				for the ducal table	vn remove-10.1 «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 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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