The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 5

The minister did his best to keep the matter secret, but it leaked out for all that, and the end of it was that no one would enter his service.

Who acts: minister, secret, end · What happens: do, keep, leak out, be, service · To what, where: best, matter secret

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (minister, secret, end), 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 minister	det
2	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 best	nmod:poss
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 secret	det
9	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 secret	compound
10	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 leaked	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 leaked	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 leaked	nsubj
14	leaked	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 leaked	compound:prt
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 leaked	obl
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 all	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 enter	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 enter	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 end	det
22	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enter	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 end	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 enter	cop
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 enter	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enter	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 enter	aux
30	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 leaked	advcl
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 service	nmod:poss
32	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enter	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the minister	minister's best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
2	keep	to-infinitive	the minister not said here	the matter secret		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	leak out	past	secret		for all	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	is	would · past	the end of secret		enter property	tree rules
5	service		minister			nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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