The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 6
Indeed, there were even those who whispered that the minister himself had murdered the missing men!
Who acts: those · What happens: be, whisper, murder · To what, where: minister · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (those), 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 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 were | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Indeed | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 those | advmod |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 were | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 whispered | nsubj |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 murdered | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 minister | det |
| 11 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 murdered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 minister | appos |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 murdered | aux |
| 14 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 whispered | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 murdered | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | those | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | murder | past · perfect · passive | the minister | tree rules |
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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