The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 36
So he went out sadly and told his guards that the empress was to be buried in the earth up to her neck, so that everyone might know what would happen to those who dared to deceive the emperor.
Who acts: emperor, everyone · What happens: go out, tell, bury up, know, happen, dare · To what, where: guards, empress, earth, emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, everyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 guards | nmod:poss |
| 9 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 buried | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 empress | det |
| 12 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 buried | aux:pass |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 buried | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 buried | aux:pass |
| 16 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 know | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 buried | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 neck | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 neck | nmod:poss |
| 23 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 know | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 know | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 29 know | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 know | aux |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | ccomp |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 happen | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 happen | aux |
| 32 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 know | ccomp |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 those | case |
| 34 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 happen | obl |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 dared | nsubj |
| 36 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 those | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 deceive | mark |
| 38 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 dared | xcomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 emperor | det |
| 40 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 deceive | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | emperor | out, sadly property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | emperor not said here | emperor's guards | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bury up | past · passive | the empress | the earth | to Laptitza's neck | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in earth=Destination | |||
| 4 | know | might | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | would | to those | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dare | past | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | deceive | to-infinitive | the emperor | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=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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